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Pen and brown ink drawing of a muscular male nude twisting while lifting a billowing cloth, standing on a stone base, on pale paper.

Academic Male Nude Representing Hercules with Nessus's Robe (recto and verso)

A muscular male nude is drawn in pen and brown ink on pale paper, twisting his torso as he lifts a flowing, billowing cloth overhead. His legs are braced apart on a stepped stone base, with additional studies of limbs sketched at the left. Hatched shading models the musculature and the cloth.

Artist
Baccio Bandinelli
Date
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk (recto and verso), on ivory laid paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 2335 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1560).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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