Nude Male Figure with a Sword by Alexandre Cabanel — Alexandre Cabanel. Nude Male Figure with a Sword, 1878. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Nude Male Figure with a Sword

by Alexandre Cabanel

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Artist: Alexandre Cabanel (French, Montpellier 1823–1889 Paris)
Date: 1878
Medium: Black chalk
Dimensions: 19 7/16 x 12 11/16 in. (49.3 x 32.3cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1988
Accession no.: 1988.255

Provenance

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