Currently not on view
Reclining Man Leaning on a Support
Louis Roland Trinquesse, French, ca. 1746 - ca. 1800
x1977-41
Life drawing was at the core of the rigorous curriculum of the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which was founded in 1648 and dissolved in 1791. Only after several years of copying two-dimensional works was a student allowed to draw the male nude model. By the mid-eighteenth century life drawing was synonymous with the acedemy itself: Diderot’s Encyclopédie defined it as "a public school where painters go to draw or paint, and sculptors to model, after a nude man called the model." These two examples of models in reclining poses reflect the highly influential, crisp red-chalk style of Carle van Loo, a leading painter in mid-eighteenth-century France who became director of the Académie in 1763, after teaching there for many years.
Information
Title
Reclining Man Leaning on a Support
Maker
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
45.1 x 60 cm. (17 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mathias Polakovits
Object Number
x1977-41
Culture
Type
Materials
Mathias Polakovits, Paris;
Gift to the Princeton University Art Museum
- James Henry Rubin, David Levine and Pierre Rosenberg, Eighteenth-century French life-drawing: selections from the Collection of Mathias Polakovits, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1977)., cat. n. 19 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40., p. 40
- "Sixteenth-to eighteenth-century French drawings from the permanent collection: a checklist of the exhibition," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 43-49., p. 45
