Studies for a Female Nude

Studies for a Female Nude is a fascinating drawing realized by the French artist Pierre Andrieu in the 19 ^th century. The state of preservation is very good, except for two small rips of the paper on the lower and higher right margins.

Pierre Andrieu  (1821-1892) was a pupil of the famous painter Eugène Delacroix from 1844 and his colleague until 1863. He worked with him at the town hall of Paris, at the Senate, at the Chamber of Deputies, at the Angels Chapel at the Saint-Sulpice Church, and they restored the ceiling of the Apollo Gallery at the Louvre. In 1868, he restored the paintings at the Senate library realized by Delacroix ruined by infiltrations.

In 1871, he opened his art studio and realized copies of Delacroix’s artworks, original paintings with genre scenes and animals (one is currently at the National Gallery in London) and a great number of orientalist drawings and paintings.

The drawing Studies for a Female Nude is a beautiful artwork in which a female body is depicted in three different poses: a splendid drawing that demonstrates the masterful draftsmanship of this virtuous artist.