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Study of a Nude Man in Profile turned to the Right

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink over graphite

Tags

Male Nudes Profiles

Dimensions

sheet: 19 1/8 x 12 15/16 in. (48.6 x 32.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Guy Wildenstein and Sally and Howard Lepow Gifts, 2008

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Antonio Canova

1757–1822 • Republic 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.

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