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Male Nude

1856

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The story

Rather than start on a fresh canvas, the student Degas painted this unfinished nude over another figure study, possibly of the same model. The earlier man still shows through, his toes near the reclining figure's head and his bearded face near its foot.

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Object details

Title: Male Nude
Artist: Edgar Degas
Date: 1856
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007.529)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0.
Object number: EFA.0943
Original image: 3000 × 1756 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Edgar Degas. Male Nude. 1856. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007.529). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0943/