Male Nude Tied to Tree
Peter Paul Rubens
1615–1625
- Medium
- Black chalk, with pen and brown ink retouching, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary/secondary supports: 30.8 × 20.5 cm (12 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksinkprints and drawinginorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
It is clear from drawings like this one, which relates to a series of prints representing Peter Paul Rubens’s workshop materials, that Rubens’s assistants copied his drawings. Rubens likely encouraged this practice, and this drawing may even show signs of correction in the form of ink retouching to emphasize the contour lines of the figure.
