Seated Female Nude (recto); Standing Male Nude (verso)
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
probably between 1810–20
Medium
Black and white chalk, stumped, on blue paper
Dimensions
22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number
1972.118.226a, b
Tags
Female Nudes
About the Artist
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman whose dreamy, sensuous art occupied a singular position between the Neoclassicism and Romanticism that competed for dominance in French painting around 1800. Born in Cluny in Burgundy, he received his early artistic training at the Dijon Academy before winning the Prix de Rome of the Estates of Burgundy, which allowed him to spe...