Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2010

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Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2009–June 2010

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Reclining Nude

1853–54
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
Sheet: 11.7 x 16 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.) Mount: 26.7 x 34.2 cm (10 1/2 x 13 7/16 in.)
Photograph, waxed salted paper print from waxed paper negative

Classification: Photographs

Accession number: 2010.380

Provenance/Ownership History: Probably from an album of approximately 25 Vallou de Villeneuve nudes owned by the dealer Leon Herschtritt, Paris, which he dissassembled and sold in the 1980s; to Gary Wolkowitz; April 22, 2006, to Sotheby's, New York, Sale # N08189 "Photographs: Session 1", Lot 59; to Hans P. Kraus Jr., Inc., New York, NY; to Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY; 2010, sold by Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc. to MFA Boston. (Accession Date: June 16, 2010)

Edward J. and Mary S. Holmes Fund