standing bearded nude male figure holding onto a vertical pole with both hands; pole is in front of man's PL arm; slightly contrapposto pose; received matted

Standing Male Nude, c. 1864

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The French Academy institutionalized the practice of life drawing in the 17th century, making the practice fundamental to every artist’s training. Any carefully drawn study of the nude body (typically male) was termed an “academy.” This accomplished example by the French 19th-century painter Lhermitte likely dates from the artist’s student days at the École Impériale de Dessin in Paris. Just shy of his 20th birthday, he had moved to Paris from a small village in northern France and enrolled in the school to study drawing.

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Title
Standing Male Nude
Artist Life
Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne 1844–Paris 1925
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.44.7
Provenance
[Francis Teboul, La Poussière du Temps, Paris, until June 1996; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis (1996–2017; given to Mia)
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standing bearded nude male figure holding onto a vertical pole with both hands; pole is in front of man's PL arm; slightly contrapposto pose; received matted