Currently not on view
Man Stepping to the Right
attributed to Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825; born Paris, France; died Brussels, Belgium; active Paris, Brussels, and Rome, Italy
x1977-35
Figure drawing was at the very core of the academic program of the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Drawings made after the nude, such as this one, were executed by students or by a professor, as an example for the class. Instruction was tightly regimented at the French academy: students first drew countless copies after engravings in line alone, progressing to the study of tonal values drawn in colored chalk from plaster casts of antique sculpture. Only after a proficient level of mastery had been achieved were students finally allowed to draw directly from live models.
Information
Title
Man Stepping to the Right
Maker
attributed to Jacques-Louis David
Medium
Black chalk with white highlights
Dimensions
54.5 x 44.5 cm (21 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mathias Polakovits
Object Number
x1977-35
Culture
Type
Materials
Mathias Polakovits;
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.)
- James Henry Rubin, "Eighteenth-century French life-drawing: addenda and corrigenda", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 26-27., p. 26, p. 27 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40., p. 37
- "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
- Barbara T. Ross, "Notes on selected French old master drawings from the permanent collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 4-42., p. 5 (illus.)
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Susan Waller, "Professional poseurs: the male model in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the popular imagination", Oxford art journal 25, no. 2 (2002): p. 43-64.
, p. 48, 49; p. 46, fig. 3 -
Susan S. Waller, The invention of the model: artists & models in Paris, 1830-1870, (Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publications, 2006).
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