Plate Number 531. Various poses

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image features a sequence of frames showing a nude woman in various full-length poses from the front, back, and side. The woman's arms are positioned differently in each frame, and her facial features are not detailed. Her hair is styled in an updo or pulled back, and she is not wearing any clothing or jewelry or holding any objects. The background shows a grid pattern and the frames are arranged on a dark backdrop.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 22 × 33 cm (8 11/16 × 13 in.)
    sheet: 48.3 × 61.2 cm (19 × 24 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.131.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Equinox Gallery, Vancouver); NGA purchase (through Laurence Miller Gallery, New York), 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 531 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: [a curious piece. / much to write about.]; bottom right: Behavior/artfulness FN; bottom right: (a weight shift study... / poorly modeled.); on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 002:032:89; bottom right: 300LM390

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