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Female Nude, Reclining, in Profile

c. 1853

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The story

Vallou de Villeneuve sold small photographs of nudes from his Paris studio as models for painters, published as a series of studies from nature. Courbet used such pictures as source material for his own nudes, notably The Painter's Studio and The Bathers.

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Object details

Title: Female Nude, Reclining, in Profile
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.0295
Original image: 3000 × 2217 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Julien Vallou de Villeneuve. Female Nude, Reclining, in Profile. 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/ea0295/