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Reclining Nude

(French, 1795–1866)
1853–54
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, waxed salt print from waxed paper negative
DimensionsSheet: 11.7 x 16 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Mount: 26.7 x 34.2 cm (10 1/2 x 13 7/16 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number2010.380
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsRecto, numbered on negative, l.r: 1907; numbered, in graphite, on mount, l.l: JV; graphite, l.r: 1907
ProvenanceProbably from an album of approximately 25 Vallou de Villeneuve nudes owned by the dealer Leon Herschtritt, Paris, which he dissassembled and sold in the 1980s; to Gary Wolkowitz; April 22, 2006, to Sotheby's, New York, Sale # N08189 "Photographs: Session 1", Lot 59; to Hans P. Kraus Jr., Inc., New York, NY; to Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY; 2010, sold by Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc. to MFA Boston. (Accession Date: June 16, 2010)

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