
Cleveland Museum of Art
Study of a Seated Nude Female Model Drawing
Pierre Puvis de ChavannesLinkedCulture matchlcp-849410b8a569
- Date
- c. 1888–1898
- Medium
- black chalk
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 168502
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In this surprising drawing, a nude figure abandons her role as model in favor of drawing. The passive nude has become active; she turns away from the viewer, absorbed in her own artistic pursuit.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- Adrien Karbowski; [Fischer Kiener Galerie, Paris, Dec. 1991]
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