Bruno Braquehais
[Seated Nude]

CultureFrench
Titles
  • [Seated Nude]
Date1853–1855
MediumDaguerreotype with applied color, stereograph
DimensionsPlate (each, at opening): 2 1/2 × 2 3/16 in. (6.3 × 5.5 cm)
Overall: 3 3/8 × 6 11/16 × 3/16 in. (8.5 × 17 × 0.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number2019.441
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

The perfect detail of daguerreotypy, the verisimilitude of subtle
hand-coloring, and the three-dimensional illusion and indetermi­nate scale of
stereographs (when seen in a special viewer) proved an irresistible combination
to the makers and consumers of erotic art. Today, one can only guess whether
this fine example was made as a work of art in its own right, as an artist’s
study, or as erotica.




ProvenanceUnidentified private collection; Wim van Keulen, Amsterdam, purchased in 1985; Stefan Richter and Angela Reuben-Richter, Reutliingen, Germany, purchased in 1993; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions recto or verso]

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