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Description: Standing Male Nude Holding a Staff

TitleStanding Male Nude Holding a Staff

Creator nameCoypel, Charles-Antoine

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1750

Object typeDrawing

Materialsblack chalk with touches of red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions17 1/16 x 10 1/4 in. (43.4 x 26 cm)

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachussetts

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/293542

Accession number1999.21

SubjectsAnatomy, ArtisticArtists and models in artDrawing--Study and teaching

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Instruction

Sarah Mirseyedi

Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium

~Drawing has long been theorized as the foundation of artistic instruction. At the French Academy, students followed a specific sequence of drawing classes, beginning first by copying drawings or prints by master artists, then moving on to drawing after three-dimensional plaster casts, and finally to the study of the live model — the culminating...

Author

Sarah Mirseyedi

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.236-242

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00039.022

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16402&redirecttoanchor=22868

Chapter subject tags:Drawing--Study and teachingAnatomy, ArtisticDrawing--CopyingArtists and models in artDrawing--Technique

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