In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Michelangelo’s masterful rendering of the male nude set the standard for many generations of artists studying in academies across Europe. Life drawings (made from nude models) became so essential to an artist’s training at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris (founded in 1648 by Louis XIV) that finished drawings like these were commonly called academies. Louis de Boullogne served as a professor of life drawing at the Royal Academy between 1694 and 1715. This work reflects the common practice of drawing from models. Here, the pose of the red chalk academie by Claude Gillot is reminiscent of the twisting male bodies on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. Gillot may have seen prints or drawings of Michelangelo’s figures, though his model is more visually connected to the studio: for example, he drew the model’s stone perch as well as the drape tucked beneath his body.
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Edmé Bouchardon (French, 1698–1762) — Academy of a Seated Nu
Jakob Matthias Schmutzer — Seated Male Nude Resting on a Sti
Carle (Charles André) Vanloo — Life Drawing
Benedetto Luti — Seated Nude Male Figure (recto); Seated Fig
Ubaldo Gandolfi — Seated Male Nude
Carlo Maratti — Nude Male Figure
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié — Seated Male Nude Facing Right
Pietro Antonio Novelli — A Seated Slave
Carle (Charles André) Vanloo — Life Drawing
Giacomo Zoboli — Finished Academy Study of a Seated Male Fig
Anton Raphael Mengs — Seated Nude Male
Louis Lagrenée — Seated Male Nude
