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FÉLIX-JACQUES-ANTOINE MOULIN. [Two Standing Female Nudes]
![FÉLIX-JACQUES-ANTOINE MOULIN. [Two Standing Female Nudes]. Artist: Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin (French, 1800-after 1875). Dimensions: visible: 14.5 x 11.1 cm (5 11/16 x 4 3/8 in.). Date: ca. 1850.
Although Moulin was sentenced in 1851 to a month in jail for producing images that, according to court papers, were "so obscene that even to pronounce the titles . . . would be to commit an indecency," this daguerreotype seems more allied to art than to erotica. Instead of the boudoir props and provocative poses typical of hand-colored pornographic daguerreotypes, Moulin depicted these two young women utterly at ease, as unselfconscious in their nudity as Botticelli's Venus.](/photos/prev/MGI3NTY4MA/album_alb3601037.webp)
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Title:
[Two Standing Female Nudes]
Caption:
[Two Standing Female Nudes]. Artist: Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin (French, 1800-after 1875). Dimensions: visible: 14.5 x 11.1 cm (5 11/16 x 4 3/8 in.). Date: ca. 1850.
Although Moulin was sentenced in 1851 to a month in jail for producing images that, according to court papers, were "so obscene that even to pronounce the titles . . . would be to commit an indecency," this daguerreotype seems more allied to art than to erotica. Instead of the boudoir props and provocative poses typical of hand-colored pornographic daguerreotypes, Moulin depicted these two young women utterly at ease, as unselfconscious in their nudity as Botticelli's Venus.
Feature:
Technique/material:
DAGUERREOTYPE
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Releases:
Model: No - Property: No
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Image size:
3361 x 4087 px | 39.3 MB
Print size:
28.5 x 34.6 cm | 11.2 x 13.6 in (300 dpi)
