Félix Moulin
[Reclining Nude]

ArtistFrench, 1802–1879
CultureFrench
Titles
  • [Reclining Nude]
Date1853
Place depictedParis, France
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsSheet: 6 1/4 × 8 3/16 in. (15.9 × 20.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Franci Neely
Object number2015.263
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In the medium’s early days—particularly in France, where Victorian notions of propriety held less sway than in England and America, and where life drawing was a central part of artistic training—photographs were a cheap and easy substitute for the live model. While serving painters and sculptors, many 19th-century photographic nudes were also intended as works of art in their own right. Still others bore the title “artist’s study” merely to evade government censors and legitimize images that were, in fact, more likely to stir a gentleman’s loins than to enhance his aesthetic endeavors.


ProvenanceJean-Pierre Faur, Paris (?) "The Romantic Agony" Book and Print Auction, Brussels, June 19, 2015, lot 30; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2015
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
No marks or inscriptions

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Sewers, Paris
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1865
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2023.475
Catacombs, Paris
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1862
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2023.474
Catacombs, Paris
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1862
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2023.472
Catacombs, Paris
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1862
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2023.473
[André Gill]
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
late 19th Century
Albumen silver print from glass negative
77.280
Marie-Berthe Fayolle, Théâtre Français
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
late 19th Century
Albumen silver print from glass negative
77.278
Mlle. Feyghin, Théâtre Français
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
late 19th Century
Albumen silver print from glass negative
77.279
Mme. George Sand
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1864
Albumen silver print from glass negative
77.281
Louis-Francois Veuillot
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1856
Albumen silver print from glass negative
77.282
[The Mime Jean-Charles Deburau Interprets Pierrot]
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1854–1855
Salted paper prints from glass negatives
2023.299.1-.11
Alexandre Dumas père
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1855
Salted paper print from glass negative
2004.613
Nubie - Kalabcheh (Talmis).  Ruines du Temple - Vue interieure du naos
Felix Teynard
1851–1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2004.696