Le Lutteur, no. 3 (The Wrestler, No. 3, also called Acrobat XV)
Artist
Georges Rouault
(French, 1871 - 1958)
Date1913
MediumGouache and oil on paper mounted on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 41 x 28 3/4in. (104.1 x 73cm)
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number53.442
Description On View
Not on viewCollections
CopyrightPresumed copyright: the artist or the artist's representative/heir(s).
Label TextIn 1913 Rouault painted a series of seventeen "wrestlers" or "acrobats" that all have the same stance-holding themselves in three-quarter pose, one arm making an arc above their heads, the other bent back on the torso, their legs spread. For the Wrestler's pose, Rouault's influences include
Michelangelo's Dying Slave, the position of which the Renaissance artist borrowed from Greek sculpture and which had some renown in studios at the end of the nineteenth century
Rodin's sculpture Age of Bronze, 1876-77, which picked up this gesture of the raised arm
Gustave Moreau in his Salomé dansante (Salome Dancing), ca. 1880. Rouault was Moreau's student and recognized all his life the importance of his work and teaching.
Fabrice Hergott
Translated by Mary Mackay and Edward Wheatley
2005
Georges Rouault
Print made in 1934 published 1938
