How does Study (Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea) elucidate its Cultural influence?
Vital to the painting's spread were reproductions based on an 1887 engraving by Jean-Baptiste Danguin that was commissioned by the state. As awareness of the work grew, the painting, despite argually meant to have any sexual subtext, became an icon of homosexual culture in the 20th century. Photographers Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun adopted the pose in a photograph of the lesbian Cahun, c. 1911. The painting was similarly evoked in early twentieth-century art photography by F. Holland Day and Wilhelm von Gloeden, and later by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Claude Cahun icon Wilhelm von Gloeden Jean-Baptiste Danguin Robert Mapplethorpe art photography Marcel Moore F. Holland Day