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Female Nude, Seated, Three Quarter View from Front
Also known as: Study of a Seated Female Nude
About the Artwork
For William Mulready, drawing was a lifelong preoccupation. This sheet was drawn from a model in the Royal Academy’s life school when the artist was 73. He was one of the academy’s most devoted teachers, positioning the model for his students and then drawing alongside them. Closely observed and meticulously crafted, the work attests to Mulready’s consummate skill as a draftsman.
Inscriptions
inscribed, in red chalk (rubbed), at lower right: RA [?/?] 1859 / WM
Provenance
?-?: (Christopher Wood, London) ?-1978: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 1978-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). Drawn to the Body: The Human Figure and the Graphic Arts, 1500-1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-May 23, 1999). British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Mulready (British, 1786–1863)
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- black and red crayon
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 49.2 x 34.1 cm (19 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- L. E. Holden Fund
- Accession no.
- 1978.53
More by William Mulready in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011131
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