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Les Cothurnes

1861–67

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The story

Some of the Countess of Castiglione's photographs show her bare legs and feet with her head cropped out, risqué for the time. Robert de Montesquiou collected 433 of her photographs, and all of them went to the Met.

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Object details

Title: Les Cothurnes
Artist: Pierre-Louis Pierson
Date: 1861–67
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color
Object type: Photographs
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit line: Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true).
Object number: EFA.0256
Original image: 3000 × 2231 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Pierre-Louis Pierson. Les Cothurnes. 1861–67. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0256/