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PHOTOGRAPHY. A new process resulting in gracious poses.
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PHOTOGRAPHY. A new process resulting in gracious poses.

Original Language TitlePhotographie. Nouveau procédé employé pour obtenir des poses gracieuses
Series TitleCroquis Parisiens
Artist Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879)
Printer Pierre Louis Hippolyte Destouches (French, active 1853 - 1869)
Publisher Maison Martinet (French, active 1870–1880s)
Date1856
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/8 × 13 3/8 inches (25.73 × 33.99 cm)
Mat: 12 3/4 × 19 5/8 inches (32.39 × 49.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.295
SignedInitialed and numbered on original image, lower left, in black pencil: "h.D. 233"; On sheet recto, lower left, in black type: "Mon Martinet,172 r.Rivoli et 41,r.Vivienne; Lith. Destouches, 28, r.Paradis Pre".
InscribedTitled on sheet recto, top, in black type: "CROQUIS PARISIENS."; Plate number on sheet recto, upper right, in black type: "4."; Caption on sheet recto, bottom, in black type: "PHOTOGRAPHIE. / Nouveau procédé employé pour obtenir des poses gracieuses." [Translation - Photography. New process used to obtain graceful poses].
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DescriptionIllustration published in Le Charivari of man and woman having their portrait taken. They are seated next to one another holding hands with head clamps behind them. The photographer stands behind the camera under a dark cloth as he holds out his right hand.Gallery Label
Painter, printmaker, and illustrator Honoré Daumier gained notoriety for his satirical cartoons of mid-1800s French politics and society. His lithographs often poked fun at the new technology of photography and the middle-class society that embraced it. Published in the satirical French illustrated magazine Le Charivari, Daumier depicts photographic portraiture as stiff, formulaic, and requiring little skill. In this cartoon, he specifically highlights the awkward clamping devices used to prevent sitters from moving during the photographic exposure.
Provenance
Gérard Lévy (1934-2016), Paris, France;
Purchased at his posthumous sale, Gérard Lévy, Photographies de Collection II, Millon, Paris, June 16, 2017, lot 14 by Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, PA, 2017;
Purchased from him by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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