Academic Nude, Seen from the Back
1862
Medium
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping and erasing, and graphite sketches and notations, on tan laid paper, laid down on heavy tan wove paper
Dimensions
62.7 × 43.5 cm (24 11/16 × 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185833
About the Artist
Paul Cezanne · 1839–1906
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), born in Aix-en-Provence to a prosperous banker father, Louis-Auguste, and mother Anne-Elisabeth-Honorine Aubert, grew up in a bourgeois family that later acquired the Jas de Bouffan estate, where he painted his earliest murals. As a youth, he formed the inseparable trio "Les Trois Inséparables" with schoolmates Émile Zola and Baptistin Baille. Despite his father's wishes ...