[Standing Male Nude]
Marlé’s photograph was probably intended as an aid for painters and sculptors. The jury-rigged arrangement of podium, books, and potted tree, as well as the painting held in the background by a studio assistant, may strike the modern viewer as an incongruous contrast to the heroic gesture of the model. Marlé and those who bought his photograph, however, would have been absorbed by the grand academic pose and likely would have thought the awkward accoutrements of little consequence.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Standing Male Nude]
- Artist: Charles Alphonse Marlé (French, 1821–after 1867)
- Date: ca. 1855
- Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
- Dimensions: Image: 25.7 x 17.6 cm (10 1/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Ezra Mack Gift and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1991
- Object Number: 1991.1075
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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