Sleeping Nude
- Date
- early 20th century
- Material
- Red chalk
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 8 5/8 x 12 1/2 in. (21.9 x 31.8 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 205:1946
NOTES
A sleeping woman lounges on her side in this drawing by Aristide Maillol. Throughout his career, Maillol consistently focused on the female body, often treating women as symbolic forms relating to nature and the sea. Though the reclining woman seen here is not placed in any recognizable location, her figure resembles the bathers seen in idyllic landscape settings in paintings of the early 1900s, including works by Henri Matisse. Matisse owned similar red chalk sketches by Maillol and used them as models for his students.
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