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Seated Male Nude in Three-Quarter View, with Right Arm Extended to the Left
Jacques Louis David French
Not on view
By all accounts, David appears to have been ambitious and headstrong from the time he began his training in the studio of Joseph Marie Vien in 1764. Studies after posed male nudes, called académies, were considered an essential exercise for aspiring history painters. Despite their facility of handling, the surviving drawings from David’s youth offer few hints of the artist he would become.
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