Art Institute of Chicago
Study of a Male Nude
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf4856169bdb
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- Graphite on pink wove paper with pink and blue fibers, altered to buff
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 185909
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
French artists in Rome often gathered at the Villa Medici for after-dinner drawing sessions. On one such occasion, in the company of Gustave Moreau, the young Degas made this study. The two artists depicted the same nude, but from different vantage points. Degas dated his study “1857 ”speculatively, many years later, but Moreau recorded “1858” at the time. The model’s dramatic pose—raised arm, eyes turned heavenward—was in keeping with the large-scale paintings favored by the French state in the 1850s. These tended to show heroic subject matter; the figure here could have been a potential prototype for a multifigure composition.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) recto, lower left, in red and stamp (Lugt 657) verso, center, in red]; sold, 4th Degas estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2–4, 1919, lot 101c. M. Viand. Sold, Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to David Daniels, New York, 1964. Sold, Christie’s, New York, May 11, 1995, lot 304, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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