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Nude Before a Mirror

c. 1857

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The story

Braquehais, a deaf former lithographer, opened a Paris studio in 1852 that turned out female nudes, many hand colored by his wife Laure. Critics have noted how his props, a Venus de Milo among them, leave the models looking oddly isolated.

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Object details

Title: Nude Before a Mirror
Artist: Bruno Braquehais
Date: c. 1857
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Object type: Photographs
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.0299
Original image: 2410 × 3000 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Bruno Braquehais. Nude Before a Mirror. c. 1857. 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/ea0299/