Cleveland Museum of Art
Two Male Nudes
Louis de BoullogneLinkedCulture matchlcp-f72672cd415f
- Date
- 1710
- Medium
- black chalk, heightened with white chalk
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 166591
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Michelangelo’s masterful rendering of the male nude set the standard for many generations of artists studying in academies across Europe. Life drawings (made from nude models) became so essential to an artist’s training at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris (founded in 1648 by Louis XIV) that finished drawings like these were commonly called academies. Louis de Boullogne served as a professor of life drawing at the Royal Academy between 1694 and 1715. This work reflects the common practice of drawing from two models, which allowed artists to explore a narrative. Here the figures resemble a wounded warrior and his companion.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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