Male Nude
Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions
image: 27.2 × 18.8 cm · matted: 55.9 × 45.7 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1996.357
Tags
About this artwork
An Italian photographer active in Paris from the mid-1860s through the mid-1870s, Guglielmo Marconi specialized in academic nude studies for painters and sculptors. Using child, female, and male models, he photographed an entire repertory of poses traditionally employed by academic studios. Illustrating the developing close association between photographers and painters, Marconi's image is related to another nude study in the collection, Julien Vallou de Villeneuve's Study after Nature (Etude d'...