id:			166632
accession number:	2008.353
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.353
updated:		2022-01-04 17:44:11.343000

Seated Male Nude, 1693-1695. Claude Gillot (French, 1673-1722). Red chalk; sheet: 43.1 x 28.6 cm (16 15/16 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.353

title:				Seated Male Nude
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creation date:			1693-1695
creation date earliest:		1693
creation date latest:		1695
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	red chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Claude Gillot (French, 1673-1722)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 43.1 x 28.6 cm (16 15/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed, lower left in sanguine:  Gillot
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
	opening date:   2001-08-26T00:00:00
	<i>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).

	title:		Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance
	opening date:   2019-10-13T04:00:00
	<i>Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art (8/26/01 - 10/28/01 ): NY, NY: The Dahesh Museum ( 2/19/02 - 5/28/02 ); "French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin"

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PROVENANCE

	Fischer-Kiener Galerie, Paris, October 1977
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Michelangelo’s masterful rendering of the male nude set the standard for many generations of artists studying in academies across Europe. Life drawings (made from nude models) became so essential to an artist’s training at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris (founded in 1648 by Louis XIV) that finished drawings like these were commonly called academies. <br><br>Louis de Boullogne served as a professor of life drawing at the Royal Academy between 1694 and 1715. This work reflects the common practice of drawing from models. Here, the pose of the red chalk academie by Claude Gillot is reminiscent of the twisting male bodies on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. Gillot may have seen prints or drawings of Michelangelo’s figures, though his model is more visually connected to the studio: for example, he drew the model’s stone perch as well as the drape tucked beneath his body.

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