Female Nude (84.XP.687.1)

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Female Nude (84.XP.687.1)

Creator

Félix Jacques Moulin

French Photographer · 1802–1875

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Daguerreotypist

A "specialist in *académies"* was how Félix Jacques Moulin listed himself in city business directories when he opened a photographic studio in Paris in 1851. *Académies,* or artists' studies, was the polite term for nude studies, which frequently bordered on the pornographic; that same year Moulin was arrested for the possession and sale of "obscene objects." He was sentenced to a month in prison

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Date: 1856
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Moulin was sentenced to a month in prison following the seizure of a number of his nude photographs by the police in 1851. He became more cautious thereafter, registering a large portion of his work with the government in order to claim official sanction. The seductive glance offered by this young woman pushes the image past what was considered acceptable at the time and may be the reason the photographer did not sign it.

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