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Academic Study of a Reclining Male Nude

A work made of black chalk, with stumping and touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.
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  • A work made of black chalk, with stumping and touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.

Date:

c. 1750

Artist:

François Boucher
French, 1703-1770

About this artwork

As an influential professor at the Royal Academy, Boucher taught life drawing. A savvy businessman, he realized the potential of producing etchings after his studies from life so that there might be instruction in provincial centers as well. This drawing—a dazzling demonstration of his technique of comingling red, black, and white chalks—was one of those reproduced.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

François Boucher

Title

Academic Study of a Reclining Male Nude

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1745–1755

Medium

Black chalk, with stumping and touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed on an eighteenth century mount, verso, in pen and brown ink: "fragile / à Madame (Verger)/ à Dèves / fragile"

Dimensions

35.6 × 44.8 cm (14 1/16 × 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Regenstein Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2009.42

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