Study of a Male Nude Shouldering a Wooden Block

ca. 1832

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in. (30 x 20 cm)
Collection no.: 2011.223
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Christen Købke. Study of a Male Nude Shouldering a Wooden Block. Christen Købke; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire, 2011. 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

Study of a Male Nude Shouldering a Wooden Block — Christen Købke. ca. 1832.

Medium: Graphite. Dimensions: sheet: 11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in. (30 x 20 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire, 2011.

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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