User:MalachiiGreen/Nudes

Commons has, of course, more nudes than you could poke a stick at. Spread across a baffling array of categories. This page is for ones that I find interesting, and possibly for progress notes.

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  Reading Girl (1886), Theodor Roussel. Unusually informal for the time?
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  Etty, Andromeda (1830s). Interesting angle and framing.
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Reading Girl

The Tate has a good write-up, accessible via the file info page. "During the 1880s British art was moving away from an elevated, Neo-Classical interpretation of the nude towards a new naturalism, regarded as a threat to moral standards. Roussel's picture was exhibited at the New English Art Club in April 1887 and caused a mild scandal." "In the opinion of Roussel's contemporary, the painter Sir William Orpen, this was the finest nude painting of his time."

Compare Manet's Olympia, also naturalistic, but formally posed and staring confidently at the viewer. The reading girl is relaxed and unconcerned.

Roussel was a friend of whistler, and Hetty Pettigrew modeled for both artists among others.

Done: added model (model (P2634))) and additional depicts to The Reading Girl (Q22342983) [1]

Etty's Andromeda

Etty is well-known for his nudes, but this angle for Andromeda (1830s) is a departure from his usual classical composition. It could almost be a study for a larger work.

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-shock-of-the-nude-celebrating-the-fleshiness-of-william-etty

"if you ignore the fact that she's chained up and wrapped in cellophane the model is much more natural-looking than most of Etty's women" – Iri. (see file usage to locate quote)

Angelique and Andromeda

Some depictions of Roger's (Ruggiero's) rescue, showing Angelique (Angelica) chained to a rock by the sea, remind me of depictions of Andromeda chained. (See w:en:Orlando Furioso)

Roger and Angelique

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  Delacroix
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  Boecklin
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  Ingres
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  Ingres
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  Ingres
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  Ingres
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  Whistler
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  Rioult

Perseus and Andromeda

Many paintings and sculptures, see media search and Category:Perseus and Andromeda in art by medium.

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  after Titian
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Andromeda chained

Crotos finds 99 matches. Media Search returns some others.

Paintings

My favourite is Doré's dynamic pose, where Andromeda recoils from the sea monster and the lapping waves.

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  Saraceni, c. 1599
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  Anon. 17C.
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  Ingres, n.d.
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  Poynter, 1869
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  Doré, 1869
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  Hill, 1876
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  Zárraga

Statues of Andromeda incorporating real chains or manacles

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  John Bell, circa 1859

Sculptures misc

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  French, 1931
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  Takanen, 1882

Antiquity and Middle Ages

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  Clothed and not chained, the light-skinned "princess of Æthiopia" strikes a powerful pose with elbows extended. Corinthian amphora.
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  Pompeiian fresco, 1st cent. Relaxing together post-rescue, Perseus is naked and Andromeda is clothed.
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  Another Pompeiian fresco. Andromeda is pale-skinned and mostly clothed with one breast exposed. Perseus is swarthy and naked but for a cape.
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  Hellenic mosaic, 2–3 cent., Zeugma, Anatolia. Andromeda, freed from her chains, is dressed whilst Perseus is naked.
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  9th century MS. Chained between two pillars.

Félix Vallotton

I wasn't familiar with Vallotton, discovered him via Commons:Picture of the Year/2022/R2/Gallery. In addition to the nudes,his landscapes and other genres are good. Love how the gallery is organised by theme and genre, not just genre alone. Category:Paintings of nude women by Félix Vallotton

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  Quatre torses (Four Torsos)
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  Le Bain turc (the Turkish Bath), 1907
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  Baigneuse de face, fond gris, 1908
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  Adolescente entrant dans l'eau, 1907
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  Nu (Nude) ou Torse de femme, 1912
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  ditto
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  La lecture abandonnée, 1924
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  Baigneuse aux roseaux, 1895

Colour balance, compare File:1921 Vallotton Blonder Akt anagoria.JPG vs. https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/blonde-nude

Subject by Century

Template:subject by century, see usage at Category:19th-century paintings of Bathsheba at her bath

Artistic theme

Bathsheba at her bath (Q69805487) is instance of both Artistic Theme and Biblical story.

Human figure positions Iconclass

Iconclass 31A(+5) uses: standing, leaning, sitting, kneeling, sitting on the ground, hanging.

Some Commons cats that I've seen distinguish reclining (as in lying-reclining not standing-leaning, but the Wikidata item is unclear), lying supine, maybe others.