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Study of a Male Nude and Other Studies

1858/1860?

Mariano Fortuny Marsal

Associated Names

Mariano Fortuny Marsal

Artist, Spanish, 1838 - 1874

The image is a sketch of a nude male figure seen from the back. The figure is standing with one arm bent against a wall, leaning slightly forward. The hair is dark and short, depicted with loose strokes. The figure is not wearing any clothes, highlighting his musculature and form through light and shadow. The background is a textured, light-colored surface with faint sketches of other figures and shapes in the upper right corner. In the lower right area, there is a red circular stamp with the word "Fortuny".

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Artwork overview

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache, on buff laid paper
Credit Line

Bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee
Dimensions

sheet: 41.59 × 28.89 cm (16 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
Accession Number

2019.45.13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Studio sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 26 April 1875; Lugt 943). (Guillermo de Osma, Madrid); William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, Dallas, TX, 1992; bequest to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Estate of Robert Brownlee and William Jordan

Exhibition History

2014

Mind's Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne. Dallas Museum of Art, 2014, no. 38 (color)(entry by William B. Jordan).

Inscriptions

upper right verso in graphite, written vertically: No 48

Markings

studio sale stamp lower right in red ink: Fortuny [inside a circle] (Lugt 943)

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