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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2010.250", "current_location": null, "title": "Study of a Seated Nude Female Model Drawing", "creation_date": "c. 1888\u20131898", "creation_date_earliest": 1883, "creation_date_latest": 1898, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "France, 19th century" ], "technique": "black chalk ", "support_materials": [ { "description": "laid paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - French", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 23.7 x 30.5 cm (9 5/16 x 12 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.237, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.3125, "width": 0.305, "width_inch": 12, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Inscribed lower right corner in black chalk: \u00e0 Karbowski/Bien amicalement/ P. Puvis de C\r\nInscribed lower left corner in black chalk: M[?] Membr\u00e9 / rue Delambre / 27\r\nInscription on right margin in graphite: [partially illegible] ... 30 fr [?] 65[?]...\r\n", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 200460, "title": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris", "description": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).", "opening_date": "2012-10-04T00:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Adrien Karbowski; [Fischer Kiener Galerie, Paris, Dec. 1991]", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In this surprising drawing, a nude figure abandons her role as model in favor of drawing. The passive nude has become active; she turns away from the viewer, absorbed in her own artistic pursuit.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80074471" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2010.250-study-of-a-seated-nu" ] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.250", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.250/2010.250_web.jpg", "width": "698", "height": "893", "filesize": "454038", "filename": "2010.250_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.250/2010.250_print.jpg", "width": "2658", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6306031", "filename": "2010.250_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.250/2010.250_full.tif", "width": "4295", "height": "5494", "filesize": "70819188", "filename": "2010.250_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Bequest of Muriel Butkin", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 168502, "creators": [ { "id": 1649, "description": "Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824\u20131898)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was born into a bourgeois family. His father intended his son to enroll at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique in Paris. After a prolonged illness, however, Puvis instead entered the Facult\u00e9 de Droit. He became interested in art during a trip to Italy in 1846, and the following year he began studying with Henri Scheffer (1798-1862). Puvis returned to Italy in 1848 with Louis Bauderon de Vermeron (1809-1870), where he became interested in the art of mural painting. He entered the atelier of Delacroix (q.v.) for only two weeks, and later that of Couture (q.v.) for three months. Yet, Puvis's chief method of study was to work independently after live models. He was accepted in the Salon of 1850, but his submissions from 1852 through 1859 were rejected. In 1854-55 he decorated the dining room at his brother's country house, Le Brouchy, near Cuiseaux. He won a second-class medal at the Salon of 1861 for Concordia (Mus\u00e9e de Picardie, Amiens), which was purchased by the state. Inspired by the frescoes of Pompeii and by Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross in Arezzo, Puvis pursued his interest in mural painting with great success. He received commissions to create works for the Palais des Arts in Lyons, the Pantheon and the H\u00f4tel de Ville in Paris, the Boston Public Library, and many others. The artist strove to integrate his mural paintings with the surrounding architecture and to maintain the integrity of the flat wall surface by using broad areas of subdued color. In 1890, together with Meissonier (q.v.) and Rodin (1840-1917), Puvis founded the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale des Beaux-Arts, as a more progressive alternative for the regular Salon. Puvis's art had a significant impact on later artists, particularly the symbolists.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1824", "death_year": "1898", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2010-09-07T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1883, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1888\u20131898", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:40:01.731000" } }