[Woman Seen from the Back]
ca. 1862
![[Woman Seen from the Back] by Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/woman-seen-from-the-back-283121.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 30.8 × 25.7 cm (12 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.) Mount: 39.4 × 31 cm (15 1/2 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1
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Art Historical Context
In the mid-19th century, as photography emerged as a revolutionary art form, Spanish-born French nobleman Onésipe Agu de las Marismas intimate glimpses of daily life. Created around 1862, *[Woman Seen from the Back is a salted paper print from a glass, a technique popular in the 1840s–60s for its soft tonal range and subtle detail. Measuring about 12 x 10 inches on its mount, this photograph exemplifies early wet-collodion processes, where a glass plate coated with collodion and silver halides was exposed and developed while still wet, yielding crisp yet delicate images. Aguado, a peer of pio...