Currently not on view
a. Academic nude of male and female against a painted backdrop b. Academic nude ,
ca. 1870
Guglielmo Marconi, French, 1841–1885
1997-14 a-b
Information
Title
a. Academic nude of male and female against a painted backdrop
b. Academic nude
Dates
ca. 1870
Maker
Medium
Albumen prints
Dimensions
image: 26.9 x 17.9 cm (10 9/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
mount: 47.2 x 31.8 cm (18 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
mat: 50.8 x 40.6 cm. (20 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, anonymous gift
Object Number
1997-14 a-b
Place Made
Europe
Inscription
Inscribed in graphite in unknown hand on mount, lower right: Kj 1232
Marks/Labels/Seals
a: Inscribed in negative, lower center of image: 95
b: Inscribed in negative, lower center of image: A18
Culture
Techniques
Subject
- Bernard Marbot, "After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography (1848-1900) from the Bibliothèque Nationale" (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980)., not illustrated
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., p. 185