Nude Male Figure with a Sword

1878

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk
Dimensions: 19 7/16 x 12 11/16 in. (49.3 x 32.3cm)
Collection no.: 1988.255
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Alexandre Cabanel. Nude Male Figure with a Sword. Alexandre Cabanel; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1988. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Nude Male Figure with a Sword — Alexandre Cabanel. 1878.

Medium: Black chalk. Dimensions: 19 7/16 x 12 11/16 in. (49.3 x 32.3cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1988.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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