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DÜRER, Albrecht: Female Nude from Behind

🖼 Female Nude from Behind, 1495
Brush drawing on paper
32 × 21 cm
Paris, France

Soft charcoal renders a woman's back in delicate hatching, her weight shifted, shoulders relaxed in classical contrapposto. Dürer's intimate study revolutionized Northern European life drawing, establishing the nude as essential to artistic mastery beyond Italian tradition.

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