Cavalier and Seated Nude by Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008

Pablo Picasso. Spanish, 1881-1973.

Cavalier and Seated Nude
1967
Oil on canvas

Accession # 1999.363.71

Picasso's alter ego grasps the baroque nudity of a young woman in this variation on the theme of the artist and his model. Picasso, who painted this work when he was eighty-six, used the historicizing figure of the rakish musketeer to paraphrase the flourid brushwork of Old Master paintings.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.