Study of a Female Nude
November 5, 1921
20th Century
24 1/4 in. x 18 3/4 in.
Bertram Bruestle,
American,
(April 24, 1902–March 16, 1967)
Medium and Support:
charcoal on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Estate of Mildred Bruestle
Accession Number:
1997.10.14
A charcoal figure study of a female nude with a drape over her left arm and cascading down her back. Small thumbnail sketch of same figure appears at upper right corner of paper. Academic drawing. Part of 85 sketches by George and Bertram Bruestle including landscapes, portraits, figurative, and architectural. They were retrieved from the Bruestle house in Lyme after Mrs. Bruestle's death in 1997.