Academic study of a male nude, 1876. Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret Hon RA (1852 - 1929) RA Collection: Art Painted when Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929) was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, this study depicts a male nude, standing in a set pose on what appears to be a rotating platform.
Renaissance, the study of the male nude became the foundation of the European art education1. Female models were uncommon, and nude male models turned out to be a useful excuse to keep women artists out of academy classes until the twentieth century.