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Lithograph of a foreshortened male nude tumbling diagonally, legs raised, arms outstretched, shaded with fine hatching.

Foreshortened male nude tumbling, lithograph plate 234

A lithograph showing a nude male figure seen from below, tumbling diagonally with legs raised toward the upper left and arms flung out at the right. Fine hatching and crosshatched shadows model the body against a pale cream sheet, with the plate number P. 234 at upper right.

Artist
Jules Dagneau
Date
1829
Medium
Lithograph
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2767 × 3642 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1829).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Accession, transferred from the Library

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