Seated Female Nude, 1853–54, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 6 13/16 × 4 11/16 in. ( × cm

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Seated Female Nude, 1853–54, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 6 13/16 × 4 11/16 in. ( × cm), Photographs, Eugène Durieu (French, Nîmes 1800–1874 Geneva), Durieu was a lawyer and early advocate and practitioner of photography in France who, in 1853–54, made a series of photographic studies of nude and costumed figures as models for artists. The French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix helped him pose the figures and later praised the prints, from which he sketched, as 'palpable demonstrations of the free design of nature

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Size: 3727px × 5462px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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