Academic Nude
Medium
Red and brown Conté crayon on tan wove paper
Dimensions
57.2 × 42.9 cm (22 9/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
conté crayon
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81472
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Alexandre Cabanel · 1823–1889
Alexandre Cabanel was a leading French academic painter born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier. The son of a carpenter, he displayed artistic talent early and began formal training at age eleven at the local École des Beaux-Arts under Charles François Matet. In 1839 he received a municipal scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1840 and ...