Standing Academic Male Nude, Delacroix
A standing nude male figure, shown full length, holds a long staff diagonally across his body while looking down with a serious expression. Drawn in black chalk and charcoal with stumped shading and white chalk highlights on dark tan paper, the study models the musculature of the torso and legs against a plain background.
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1816
- Medium
- Black chalk and charcoal with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto), and black chalk and charcoal with stumping (verso), on dark tan
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 2194 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1816).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
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, Gift of Austin Hills