Nude

1851-1853

Félix Jacques Antoine Moulin

Associated Names
Félix Jacques Antoine Moulin

Artist, French, 1802 - 1879

These are two identical sepia-toned photographs placed next to each other. The photographs show a woman lying reclined on a bed. She is positioned on her side, her head towards the left and propped up on one of her hands. She is looking out at us. She has pale skin and long, dark hair that cascades over her shoulders. The woman appears to be nude, but upon closer inspection it seems she is wearing a sheer garment. Behind her seems to be a large mirror, showing us the back of her body. The setting is framed by white drapes or curtains with a floral pattern, and the bed beneath her has thin brown posts and a gray knitted or crocheted blanket with some white spots. The two photographs are contained in square framed with rounded corners on the top, and they are next to each other on a black surface with a purple border.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Serge Nazarieff, Paris; (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1996; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, typed in black ink on label affixed to upper right corner: Felix Jacques-Antoine Moulin (1851-1853).

Wikidata ID

Q64147592

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