Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Standing nude with jug, 1853-1854
Coated salt print from a paper negative
16.3 x 12.3 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Standing nude, 1853-1854
Coated salt print from a paper negative
16.4 x 12.2 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Young girl with tambourine and basket, circa 1852
Paper negative
16.6 x 12.9 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings. The precise retouching of this negative with graphite was done by Vallou himself.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
The milkmaid, circa 1852
Paper negative
16.5 x 12.8 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Standing nude (Henriette Bonnion), 1853-1854
Coated salt print from a paper negative
14.4 x 10.0 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
This photograph is thought to be Courbet's source for his muse in his monumental and mysterious painting "L'Atelier du peintre," now in the Musée d'Orsay.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Standing nude, 1853-1854
Coated salt print from a paper negative
15.3 x 11.4 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Seated nude with jar, 1853-1854
Coated salt print from a paper negative
17.3 x 12.4 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Seated female figure, 1853-1854
Coated salt print from a paper negative
16.5 x 12.2 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings. He also operated his own studio where he made the elegant photographic nude and genre studies for which he is now most admired.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Reclining nude, 1853-1854
Coated salt print from a paper negative
12.0 x 15.6 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Reclining nude, 1853
Coated salt print from a paper negative
12.0 x 16.9 cm
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used some of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Woman with braid, circa 1852
Paper negative
16.5 x 13.0 cm, ruled in pencil, on 18.8 x 13.6 cm paper
Outlined in graphite. "71" in ink and "B" in graphite on verso.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was a French painter, lithographer and photographer. His photographic works are most closely associated with the painter Gustave Courbet who, during the 1850s, used many of Villeneuve's photographs as source material for his paintings.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (French, 1795-1866)
Young woman with tambourine, circa 1852
Paper negative
16.5 x 12.8 cm, ruled in pencil, on 18.7 x 13.7 cm paper
Original retouching and outlined in graphite. "64" in ink and "B" in graphite on verso