Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
In this surprising drawing, a nude figure abandons her role as model in favor of drawing. The passive nude has become active; she turns away from the viewer, absorbed in her own artistic pursuit.
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Auguste Rodin — Sketch for Figure on Whistler Monument
Edgar Degas — Study of a Nude (Dancer at the Barre)
Edgar Degas — Girl Putting on Her Stockings
Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865–1938) — Nude Woman Seated on a
John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856–1925) — Fema
Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann — Studies of a Seated Woma
Alfred J. Wands (American, 1904–1998) — Seated Nude
Edgar Degas — Youth in an Attitude of Defense
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) — The Little Nu
Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931) — Seated Nude
George Bellows (American, 1882–1925) — Seated Female Nude (E
Henri Lehmann — Back View of a Male Nude
