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Framed print

Curator's Choice: A Female Nude Seated at Julian's Atelier, Rue du Dragon

Munnings, Alfred James, 1878–1959

What made me go to Paris? I am unable to say!

Alfred Munnings regularly met with fellow artists in the bar of the Castle Hotel in Norwich on Saturday mornings, and it was here that the whole idea of a trip to Paris was inaugurated. Painted in the autumn of 1903 during a life class at the studio of the Académie Julian (a private art school), Munnings’ astute choice of pose uses the light from behind to maximum effect on the model’s body. The light and colour dances in her hair while her profile is in dark shadow. The backdrop of the studio adds atmosphere by depicting student sketches.

Juliet Eisdell, Curatorial Associate

The Munnings Art Museum

The Munning's Art Museum is dedicated to Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959), his life and works. Each year a changing selection of 150 paintings and drawings from the museum's significant collection is hung throughout the rooms of Castle House, Munning's home from 1919 until his death.

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A Female Nude Seated at Julian's Atelier, Rue du Dragon
A Gipsy Campfire
A Mare and Foal
A Portrait Study of the Duchess of Westminster
A Shoot in a Swede Field
A Suffolk Horse Fair, Lavenham
Before the Race
Bringing Home the Sheep, Withypool, Exmoor
Exercising the Horses
Lamorna Inn
Moving up for the Start
My Grey Mare
My Wife, My Horse and Myself
Path to the Orchard
R. W. Sutherland, Cavalry Officer
'Shrimp' Leading Ponies across a Norfolk Common
Study for 'Early Morning, Newmarket'
Study for 'Our Mutual Friend the Horse', Lady Munnings Riding Side-Saddle
Study for 'The Ford'
Study for 'The Unsaddling Enclosure, Epsom'
Study of 'The Start'
Tagg's Island
Thatching an Oat Stack with Rushes, Exmoor
The Haunted Room, Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor