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| | Early female nude studies - Checklist |
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LL/4155 |  | Louis Jules Duboscq
Study of a Reclining Nude from behind [Attributed to Louis Jules Duboscq]
1850s (mid)
Daguerreotype, hand-tinted, stereoscopic
Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc
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LL/7504 |  | Unidentified photographer/creator
Female Nude at Mirror
1850-1852
Daguerreotype, hand-colored
2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Trust (84.XT.1582.31)
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LL/7715 |  | Eugène Durieu
Rückenakt, Paris
1853 (ca)
Museum Ludwig / Agfa Photo-Historama
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LL/7727 |  | Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
[Female nude, reclining, with arm raised (#1940)]
1853 (ca)
Salted paper print from paper negative
4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in (11.8 x 16 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1993 (1993.69.1)
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Contextual notes:
France was the center for the production of nude photographs and distinction between photographs that were taken to further art and those designed for more dubious purposes was blurred. In the middle of the nineteenth century the French photographer Auguste Belloc had his negatives confiscated by the authorities and in 1851 Felix Jacques Antoine Moulin was sent to prison for a month.
The oil paintings of nude women and children that lined the walls of salons and galleries were accepted as art but photographs were not. Similar confusion over what is art and what is obscene continues today. |
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