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Two Male Nudes

1710

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The story

Louis de Boullogne taught life drawing at the Royal Academy in Paris from 1694 to 1715, where finished studies like this were called academies. Posing two models together let artists explore a story, and here the men resemble a wounded warrior and his companion.

Source, Cleveland Museum of Art

Object details

Title: Two Male Nudes
Artist: Louis de Boullogne
Date: 1710
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: black chalk, heightened with white chalk
Object type: Drawings
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art (2008.339)
Credit line: Image source clevelandart.org. License Public domain (CC0).
Object number: EFA.1067
Original image: 2391 × 3400 px
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Louis de Boullogne. Two Male Nudes. 1710. The Cleveland Museum of Art (2008.339). Image source clevelandart.org. License Public domain (CC0). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1067/