Nude Study of an Old Man (before 1852): Art, History and Details

Nude Study of an Old Man (before 1852) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri Lehmann (French, 1814–1882).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In preparation for executing largescale paintings, artists often produced studies of individual components of their compositions in order to work through their ideas. Lehmann made this figural study for a mural in the old Hôtel de Ville in Paris, destroyed by fire during the Commune in 1871. Here, the artist explored how to render deep shadows on the nude male body.

Object facts

• Title: Nude Study of an Old Man
• Date: before 1852
• Creator attribution: Henri Lehmann (French, 1814–1882)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Graphite and stumping
• Dimensions: Sheet: 31.1 x 21 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
• Collection: DR - German
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2018.44

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lehmann, Henri, and Marie-Madeleine Aubrun. Henri Lehmann, 1814-1882: portraits et décors parisiens : 7 juin-4 septembre 1983, Musée Carnavalet. [Paris]: Le Musée, 1983.

View the collection record

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