Female Nude, Seated, Three Quarter View from Front
1859
William Mulready
William Mulready (British, 1786–1863)
Drawings
Female Nude, Seated, Three Quarter View from Front, 1859. William Mulready (British, 1786–1863). Black and red crayon; sheet: 49.2 x 34.1 cm (19 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund 1978.53 For William Mulready, drawing was a lifelong preoccupation. This sheet was drawn from a model in the Royal Academy’s life school when the artist was 73. He was one of the academy’s most devoted teachers, positioning the model for his students and then drawing alongside them. Closely observed and meticulously crafted, the work attests to Mulready’s consummate skill as a draftsman. In 1863, William Mulready testified before the Royal Commission Enquiry into the Royal Academy in support of the life class as central to academic education.
- Maker/Artist
- Mulready, William
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black and red crayon
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 49.2 x 34.1 cm (19 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscribed, in red chalk (rubbed), at lower right: RA [?/?] 1859 / WM
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1978.53
- Credit Line
- L. E. Holden Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, Drawn to the Body: The Human Figure and the Graphic Arts, 1500-1900, British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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