Louis Igout
Album d’Etudes—Poses

Artist Louis Igout(French, 1837–1881)French, 1837–1881

Publisher Calavas Frères(Paris, active 1875–1930)Paris, active 1875–1930

CultureFrench

Titles

Album d’Etudes—Poses
Figure Studies

Date1870s

MediumAlbum of albumen silver prints

DimensionsImage: 5 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (13.3 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (13.3 × 19.7 cm)
Mount: 10 × 12 1/4 in. (25.4 × 31.1 cm)
Overall (closed): 12 3/16 × 10 1/4 × 1 9/16 in. (31 × 26 × 4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors

Object number2018.182

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThroughout
its early history, photography had a complex relationship with painting,
imitating its aesthetics, borrowing its subjects, aiding its study, and even
supplanting some of its traditional functions. The poet Charles Baudelaire, who
famously declared photography’s proper role to be “servant of the sciences and
arts—but the very humble servant,” might have approved of this compilation of
images unashamedly intended to aid artists in the study of contour, modeling,
and proportion, and as a vocabulary of expression, gesture, and pose sanctioned
by the art of antiquity and the Old Masters.
Provenance[Vasta Images/Books, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Embossed in gold, book spine: ALBUM // ÉTUDES // POSES
Printed in black ink, recto, bottom center of each page: A. CALAVAS Éditeur, – 68, Rue de Lafayette, PARIS

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