Nude Male Walking, Holding a Cloak

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Nude Male Walking, Holding a Cloak

Early 1640s?

Andrea de Leone (Italian, 1610–1685)

De Leone was a relatively minor but engaging Neapolitan painter who drew on diverse contemporary sources of inspiration, such as the battle scenes of one of his masters in Naples, Aniello Falcone; the animal-filled Old Testament subjects of his Genoese contemporary Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; and the highly intellectualized religious and mythological paintings that he must have seen in Rome by the French expatriate Nicolas Poussin.

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Object Details

Title:

Nude Male Walking, Holding a Cloak

Date:

Early 1640s?

Artist:

Andrea de Leone (Italian, 1610–1685)

Medium:

Red chalk with stumping on laid paper, inlaid in paper mount

Dimensions:

Sheet: 22 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (56.9 x 39 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund, 1979

Accession Number:

1979-25-1

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