Lot 92
92
JULIEN VALLOU DE VILLENEUVE (1795-1866)
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JULIEN VALLOU DE VILLENEUVE (1795-1866)

Draped nude

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JULIEN VALLOU DE VILLENEUVE (1795-1866)
Draped nude
Salt print from a paper negative. 1851-55. Numbered in the negative; numbered in pencil on the mount.
6½ x 4¾ in. (16.5 x 12 cm.)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Vallou de Villeneuve's carefully posed veiled or draped nudes were marketed as models for artists. Maria Morris Hambourg writes that they were used by Gustave Courbet among others.
Hambourg et al, The Waking Dream, p. 284.

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