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Nude Man Standing with One Arm Raised
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Nude Man Standing with One Arm Raised

Medium

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

Dimensions

16 1/16 x 10 1/16in. (40.8 x 25.5cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Antonio Canova

1757–1822Republic of Venice

Canova was the most successful and influential Neoclassical sculptor. During the 1780s he developed a new style marked by severity and idealistic purity, which led many of his contemporaries to prefer his ideal sculptures to such previously universally admired antique statues as the Medici Venus and the Farnese Hercules. He was also a popular portrait sculptor, often combining a classicizing format with a naturalistic presentation of features.