Seated Female Nude Study, Oil on Panel, Circa 1860, American Art

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An American artists study of a seated female nude, back view, in a wooded landscape, oil on panel, executed circa 1860. This unusual motif painted on panel depicts a single female nude figure seen almost entirely from behind, seated at the base of a large tree, in a wooded landscape opening onto a distant view at the left. The figure's weight rests on her hip, her legs drawn up and turned away from the viewer, while her right arm extends forward and down toward the ground. Her head is turned in near-profile toward the tree trunk, and her fair hair is dressed in a plait that falls forward over her shoulder and along her neck. The pose exposes the full length of the back, with particular attention paid to the soft, fleshy modeling of the shoulders, back, and buttocks. The landscape setting is rendered more loosely and in a cooler, greener tonal register than the figure, with a hazy blue-green distance opening at the left. The paint is applied thinly throughout, with the ground of the board visible in places, and there is a visible pentimento in the lower arm, where the artist appears to have altered its position and length during execution. These features, together with the sketch-like handling of the background, suggest the work is a study. The pose, proportions, and treatment of the flesh in the principal figure are closely modeled on the female nude type associated with Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), whose bathing nymphs and mythological female figures are frequently characterized by soft, rounded modeling of this kind. The landscape surrounding the figure, however, is stylistically distinct from Rubens' own manner, it is cooler in palette and more atmospheric in handling than the warm, dense forest settings typical of Rubens' Flemish landscapes, and reads instead as a 19th-century landscape convention. This disjunction between figure and setting indicates that the panel is not a copy of a complete, single Rubens composition, but rather a study of a Rubens figure or something close without conveying Rubens' own landscape or color scheme to which the present artist has supplied an independent landscape setting. The reverse of the panel bears the printed trade label of F. W. Devoe & Co, a manufacturer of artists materials, from the corner of Fulton and William Streets, New York, with the registered "Academy Board" trademark dated 1852. Devoe expanded to a national presence with a branch in Chicago in 1869. Labels bearing only the New York address, as here, are generally considered to predate that expansion, placing the manufacture of the board itself in the period circa 1852–1869, though Devoe continued producing academy boards of this general type for some years afterward, so the panel could have been painted somewhat later using older stock.