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François Boucher

Academic Study of a Reclining Male Nude

c. 1750
Black chalk, with stumping and touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
35.6 × 44.8 cm (14 × 17.6 in)

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