[Woman with Revealing Chemise and Raised Petticoat]

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[Woman with Revealing Chemise and Raised Petticoat]

Datec. 1850

MediumDaguerreotype with applied color, stereograph

DimensionsImage (each): 2 9/16 × 2 3/16 in. (6.5 × 5.6 cm)
Overall: 3 3/8 × 6 9/16 in. (8.5 × 16.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Harry M. Reasoner in honor of Macey Reasoner at "One Great Night in November, 2017"

Object number2017.372

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAs in our own day, mid-19th-century makers and consumers of erotica instantly adopted the newest technology—the daguerreotype with its perfect rendering of detail and the stereoscope with its illusion of three dimensions. With subtle hand coloring to suggest natural skin tones and touches of color on gold necklaces and jeweled pendants, the result was as enthralling then as virtual reality is today. In erotic images such as this one, the viewer’s sense of voyeurism is enhanced still further by the way one looks at stereographs: privately, as if through the boudoir keyhole.
Provenance[Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
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