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Two Male Nudes

c. 1774

Jean-François Janinet after Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger

Associated Names

Jean-François Janinet

Artist, French, 1752 - 1814

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Artist After, French, 1715 - 1790

The image shows two male figures seated closely together. The man in the foreground is sitting with his back towards the viewer, facing slightly to the left. He has short, wavy brown hair and a muscular build, with his head turned downward. The man behind him is also muscular, seated slightly elevated and leaning forward with one hand behind him and the other on the man in front. Both men are nude, with a cloth underneath them on the seating block. The background is a soft, monochromatic reddish-brown.

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Artwork overview

Medium

chalk manner printed in red ink on laid paper
Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, gift in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Dimensions

overall: 38.8 x 47.3 cm (15 1/4 x 18 5/8 in.)
Accession Number

2010.16.5
Catalogue Raisonné

Portalis and Beraldi no. undesc.

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2003

Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 29.

Bibliography

1880

Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880: undesc

Inscriptions

lower left in image: Cochin f.; lower right in image: A Paris chez Janinet Rue de Lirondelle...

Watermarks

T DUPVY FIN / AUVERGNE 1742

Wikidata ID

Q76345633

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