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Reclining Female Nude

c. 1853

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The story

Gustave Courbet saw Vallou de Villeneuve's nudes through his patron Alfred Bruyas and used them as source material for The Bathers of 1853 and The Painter's Studio. Two of Vallou's photographs show the model Henriette Bonnion in a pose close to Courbet's.

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Object details

Title: Reclining Female Nude
Artist: Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
Date: c. 1853
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Object type: Prints
Collection: The 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.0293
Original image: 3000 × 2207 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Julien Vallou de Villeneuve. Reclining Female Nude. c. 1853. The 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/ea0293/