Two Nude Male Figures Struggling Together

Signature: Black chalk, lower margin, left: N. de Largilliere Julliet/ 1709 Et 1710

Vendor: Henri Baderou (French)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings Recently Acquired, 1969–1971," January 18–April 16, 1972.

Jacob Bean "Ninety-ninth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1968-1969, Reports of the Departments: Drawings." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.s. vol. 28, no. 2, New York, October 1969, p. 67.

Pierre Rosenberg I disegni dei maestri: Il seicento francese. Milan, 1971, p. 86.

Jacob Bean "Drawings." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965-1975. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, p. 59, ill.

Jacob Bean Patterns of Collecting: Selected Acquisitions, 1965-1975. Explanatory texts accompanying an exhibition. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, p. 59, ill.

James Henry Rubin, David Levine Eighteenth-Century French Life-Drawing. Selections from the Collection of Mathias Polakovits. Princeton, 1977, fig. no. 4, pp. 22, 23, ill.

Myra Nan Rosenfeld Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait. Exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, 1982, cat. no. 38, pp. 187-194, ill.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 155, p. 144, ill.

Marianne Roland Michel Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle. Paris, 1987, fig. no. 53, pp. 65-66.