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| Keywords: Standing Female Nude.jpg Photograph Creator Nadar en Standing Female Nude 1860 �61 Salted paper print from glass negative cm 20 2 13 3 institution Metropolitan Museum of Art credit line Purchase The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel 1991 accession number 1991 1174 http //www metmuseum org/art/collection/search/266459 fullscreen Metropolitan Museum of Art Famed for his portraits of writers artists and left-wing politicians Nadar is known to have photographed only three female nudes This one was made at the behest of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme to assist in the process of painting Phryné before the Areopagus displayed at the Salon of 1861 Gérôme �s painting depicts the moment when the famous courtesan Phryné on trial for impiety is suddenly unveiled by her lawyer; persuaded by Phryné �s divine beauty the jurors acquit her Like Phryné who is said to have modeled for the ancient Greek painter Apelles and other artists of antiquity Nadar �s model Marie-Christine Leroux 1820 �1863 was widely sought by artists of her time and was the basis for the character Musette in Henri Murger �s Scènes de la vie de bohème 1860 portrait photographs 1861 portrait photographs Photographs by Nadar Black and white photographs of nude women Phryne | ||||
