Standing Male Nude Seen from Below

ca. 1730

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, stumping, heightened with white, on beige paper. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Dimensions: 14 5/8 x 8 7/16 in. (37.1 x 21.4 cm)
Collection no.: 1984.238
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

François Lemoyne. Standing Male Nude Seen from Below. François Lemoyne; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Gift, 1984. 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

Standing Male Nude Seen from Below — François Lemoyne. ca. 1730.

Medium: Black chalk, stumping, heightened with white, on beige paper. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.. Dimensions: 14 5/8 x 8 7/16 in. (37.1 x 21.4 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Gift, 1984.

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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