Who created "[Reclining Odalisque]"?

[Reclining Odalisque] was created by Roger Fenton in 1858.

What medium is "[Reclining Odalisque]"?

[Reclining Odalisque] is Salted paper print from glass negative.

Is "[Reclining Odalisque]" in the public domain?

Yes, [Reclining Odalisque] is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

[Reclining Odalisque]

Roger Fenton

1858

Medium

Salted paper print from glass negative

Dimensions

28.5 x 39 cm (11 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.)

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Anonymous, Joyce and Robert Menschel, Jennifer and Joseph Duke, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gifts, 1997

Accession Number

1997.382.34

Tags

Women

Art Historical Context

Roger Fenton's *Reclining Odalis* (1858) is a captivating salted paper print from a glass negative, measuring 28.5 x 39 cm. As one of the earliest masters of photography, Fenton—best known for his groundbreaking Crimean War images—here turns his lens to a timeless artistic motif: the odalisque, reclining female figure inspired by harem imagery. This work exemplifies mid-19th-century photographic experimentation, where salted paper prints produced soft, warm tones with subtle gradations, capturing light and texture in ways that rivaled painting. Created just three years after Fenton's return f...

About the Artist

Roger Fenton · 1819–1819

Roger Fenton (1819–1869), born into a prosperous Lancashire merchant family as the son of banker and MP John Fenton, initially pursued a scholarly path, earning a first-class BA from the University of London in 1840 before studying law at University College London. He abandoned these pursuits for art, training as a painter under the history painter Charles Lucy in London by 1847—the two became clo...

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