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Nude Seated on a Couch

Nude Seated on a Couch

Artist/Maker (French, 1767–1824)
Dateca. 1811
MediumBlack and red conte crayons with touches of white conte crayon over gray iron gall ink washes; verso: Black and red conte crayons with touches of white conte crayon and dark brown iron gall ink over pen and dark brown iron gall ink
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 6 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (15.9 × 19.7 cm)
Credit LineMrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund
Object number1964.16
Status
Not on view
More Information
The figure may relate to illustrations designed by Girodet for Virgil's Aeneid, lithographed by pupils and published in 1825-27, as well as for editions of other classical authors.
Exhibition History
France in the Eighteenth Century
  • Royal Academy of Arts, London (January 6, 1968 - March 3, 1968 )
Investigating Romanticism, 1750-1850: A Century of Contrasts
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 28, 1980 - November 23, 1980 )
Teaching Exhibition
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 3, 1981 - October 4, 1981 )
The Romantic Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Prints and Drawings from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 14, 1987 - September 3, 1987 )
The Male Nude: From Pollaiuolo to Mapplethorpe
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 3, 1994 - June 26, 1994 )
The Romantic Project in Europe: 1790-1850
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 17, 1998 - May 31, 1998 )
On Line: European Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008 )
Collections
  • European
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