Daniel Huntington

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

In this suite of three drawings, Daniel Huntington rendered the idealized male figure—based on an ancient Greek sculpture of a dancing faun that he most likely knew from a plaster cast—in progressively complete anatomical states. Using different colored media and a combination of crisp outlines and soft hatchings, the artist rendered the human form with great precision and sensitivity to the distinct properties of skin, muscle, and bone. As a group, these sheets provide a virtuoso demonstration of the academic principle that an understanding of anatomy is fundamental to figural representation.

Caption

Daniel Huntington American, 1816–1906. Nude Study, ca. 1848. Black and white crayon on blue-green, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, Sheet: 21 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (55.2 x 38.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Roebling Society, 68.167.5. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 68.167.5_IMLS_PS4.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Nude Study

Date

ca. 1848

Medium

Black and white crayon on blue-green, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

Sheet: 21 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (55.2 x 38.4 cm)

Signatures

Unsigned

Credit Line

Gift of The Roebling Society

Accession Number

68.167.5

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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