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Source Description
Academically trained artists often practiced drawing live models. Called academies, these figure studies occasionally served as preparatory drawings for paintings. Some artists crafted their academies to appeal to collectors interested in contemplating technical skill and inventiveness. Boucher may have imaginatively given wings to this male nude, who does not appear in any known painting, to demonstrate his ingenuity by transforming the model into a mythological figure.
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Document identity
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166629
label
Male Academy with Wings
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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166629
contentType
drawing
title
Male Academy with Wings
description
Academically trained artists often practiced drawing live models. Called academies, these figure studies occasionally served as preparatory drawings for paintings. Some artists crafted their academies to appeal to collectors interested in contemplating technical skill and inventiveness. Boucher may have imaginatively given wings to this male nude, who does not appear in any known painting, to demonstrate his ingenuity by transforming the model into a mythological figure.
date
1745–50
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79997146
creators
1888
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 30.1 x 37.1 cm (11 7/8 x 14 5/8 in.)
cul
France, 18th century
accession
2008.35
Source extras
tec
red chalk on cream laid paper
tombstone
Male Academy with Wings, 1745–50. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Red chalk on cream laid paper; overall: 30.1 x 37.1 cm (11 7/8 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.350
supportMaterials
description
cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
verso, upper left, in graphite: M; center right, in graphite: [c--c 2ff?] [sideways]; lower right, in graphite: [illegible, partially erased inscription four lines long]; lower center, in graphite: M[illegible]; lower right, in graphite: pr cadre
citations
citation
Foster, Carter E. "Jean-Bernard Restout's "sleep: Figure Study": Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture." <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 3 (1998): 48-85.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 68, fig. 27
citation
Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. <em>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8, p. 26-27
creditline
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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2026-05-29 08:36:19.603000
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166629
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Drawings
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DR - French
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red chalk on cream laid paper
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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