This study of a male nude with Swort was executed in 1895 and was attributed to the hand of  Austrian portrait, genre and landscape painter John Quinc Adams ( 1874 -Vienna - 1933). This male drawing can be painted by him in the age of 21 , as he studied at the Viennese Academy under S. l´Allemand and A. Eisenmenger, then in Munich Academy under Marr and Herterich and finely in Paris at the Academy Julian by J.B. Lauren’s and Benjamin Constant. He was mainly portrait and genre painter and as a portraitist particularly popular in the commercial circles of Vienna. His main works include "Dead prayer in the Teauerhaus Vollesdam", Holland (1903), "Portrait of the artist´s wife", A triptych with Dutch motif (1905). The latter painting was awarded with the Great Golden State Medal in Vienna in 1906.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler.."Leipzig, 1999; Hans Vollmer (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present; Prof.H.Fuchs „Österreichische Maler des 19. Jahrhunders“.

Inscription: signed J.Adams (ligated) and dated 1895, lower right.

Technique: drawing on cardboard. Framed.

Measurements:  w 17 1/2" x h 24 3/4" (44,5 x 63 cm), framed 18 7/8" x  26 1/4"  (48 x 66,5 cm).

Condition: in quite good condition, a few small foxing spots, glued paper tear right in the middle (see photo).