Study of a nude youth

This nude study relates to the male figure in the painting L’Amour et Psyché, dated 1899 and exhibited at the Paris Salon the same year under number 260 (formerly in the sale Sotheby’s, New York, 23 April 2010, lot 63; see D. Bartoli and F. Ross, William Bouguereau. Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, Paris, 2010, II, no. 1899/02, ill.). For another drawing related to the same picture, see the following lot.