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Jenő Barcsay became a professor at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts in 1945. At the age of fifty he was commissioned to draw a book of anatomy especially for artists. With a sharp pencil he traced from point to point the various parts of the skeletal structure and the muscles, and between 1951 and 1953, he produced 126 brilliant drawings. The volume, Anatomy for the Artist, was published in Hungarian in 1953.
The "Anatomical Study" reproduced here constituted sheet CXXIV in the book; five years later it was reproduced again on the XXVIIth page of Man and Drapery, a second volume of drawings in which Barcsay explored the complex problem of the nude and the covered body, which never ceased to interest the artists from Antiquity to our own days.
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