TitleStudy: male nude
Artist
Kenyon Cox
(American, 1856 - 1919)
Date1877-1882
MediumOil on canvas mounted on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 32 × 35 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Allyn Cox, Caroline Cox Lansing, and Leonard Cox, 1959
Object number1615-P
Label TextThis work may have been painted in 1877 when Cox spent a brief period in the Parisian atelier of Carolus-Duran, who taught his students to draw freely with the brush. It demonstrates the artist’s early mastery of the nude figure.
