The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of October 11, 2024
Reclining Male Nude (verso)
c. 1887–89
(French, 1868–1940)
Sheet: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Bequest of William Kelly Simpson 2018.77.b
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Vuillard probably created this drawing while he was a student at Paris's Académie Julian, where he met the other artists who would become the Nabis.Description
During the early 1890s, Édouard Vuillard repeatedly represented his mother and older sister, Marie, in domestic settings. This drawing relates to a pastel and painting, all of which show Marie standing before a mirror, raising her arms as if to adjust her hairstyle. A charcoal study of a nude male appears on the verso, suggesting that the artist may have reused the sheet.- Family of the artist (L. 2497b)Sam Salz, New York, NYOctober 15, 1957sold to anonymous, October 15, 1957November 14, 1990Sotheby's, New York, NY1990-2018William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NYJune 4, 2018the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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