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Full length portrait of a nude male facing the viewer

Rendered in fine red chalk lines on cream colored paper paper, a young adult nude male poses directly facing the viewer while looking slightly up and left. Resting his weight mainly on his right foot, he holds his left foot back a half step. He leans on his left hand which grips something at waist height which is not sketched in. He holds his right hand up at shoulder height as if it is gripping a staff, but this is similarly not sketched in.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.147
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Standing Male Nude
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1860
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/19244

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
46.6 x 30.8 cm (18 3/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark:
  • estate stamp: recto, lower right: Degas stamp, with strange "d" and "g," perhaps from water damage correction? [See notes in file] [Lugt 658?]
  • estate stamp: verso, lower right: Atelier stamp [Lugt 657]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.147
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 8

Exhibition History

  • Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965

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