Male Academy with Wings
1745–50
- Medium
- red chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 30.1 × 37.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210580
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.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.350
Registry history
- 1745–50 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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