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Date1890–1895
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 13/16 × 4 13/16 in. (17.3 × 12.3 cm)
Sheet: 6 15/16 × 5 1/16 in. (17.7 × 12.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Object number2016.244
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Piasa, France, November 19, 2010, lot 76]; purchased by Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, New York; given to MFAH, 2016.
Published References Paul Richer, "Physiologie artistique de l'homme en mouvement" (Paris: Octave Doin, 1895), plates III and IV (variant images). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Pencil outline, recto, along upstretched arm and right leg.
Inscribed in pencil, verso top center edge: 21190 [?]

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