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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Two Reclining Nudes
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Two Reclining Nudes

Artist Charles Despiau (French, 1874-1946)
CultureFrench
Dateca.1920s-1930s
MediumChalk | Paper
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (23.5 x 31.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 16 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (41.3 x 48.9 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2631
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a drawing in red chalk on paper of two reclining women with their backs to the viewer.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Arthur Bowen Davies
ca. 1920
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Léonard Foujita
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
ca. 1900-1910
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Ed Pollard-2008.
Thomas Couture
ca. 1857
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Charles James
1961
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2017.
Paul Manship
1921
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1866
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Arthur Bowen Davies
1862-1928