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Reclining Nude

1851–53

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The story

Courbet used Vallou de Villeneuve's nude photographs as source material for paintings such as The Bathers. In 1855 Vallou donated his prints to the Société française de photographie, and no photographs by him are recorded after that.

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Object details

Title: Reclining Nude
Artist: Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
Date: 1851–53
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.0296
Original image: 3000 × 2385 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 Nude. 1851–53. 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/ea0296/