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Reclining Male Nude
Jacques Louis David French
Not on view
This recently discovered work demonstrates David’s mastery of anatomy in the académie (male nude) format, a type of drawing he would abandon after returning to Paris. He was clearly proud of this example, however; he presented it as a gift to Jean Augustin Renard, who won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1773 and overlapped with David at the Académie de France in Italy from 1775 to 1777.
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