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A Sitting Male Model (Peter Kristrup)

1837

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The story

In 1837 Eckersberg painted a set of five life-size, highly finished figure studies for his students at the Royal Danish Academy. As one critic put it, he brought his naked, not nude, models right up to the picture plane, the kind of directness that keeps them looking modern today.

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Object details

Title: A Sitting Male Model (Peter Kristrup)
Artist: C.W. Eckersberg
Date: 1837
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Charlottenborg
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0998
Original image: 1982 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

C.W. Eckersberg. A Sitting Male Model (Peter Kristrup). 1837. Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Charlottenborg. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0998/