id: 161308 accession number: 1999.8 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.8 updated: 2019-06-03 10:38:54.013000 Untitled (Nude), 1851-1852. Alexis-Louis-Charles-Arthur Gouin (French, 1855). Stereoscopic daguerreotype, hand-colored, 2/6th plate; image: 6.5 x 5.5 cm (2 9/16 x 2 3/16 in.); overall: 8.4 x 16.8 cm (3 5/16 x 6 5/8 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1999.8 title: Untitled (Nude) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1851-1852 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1852 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: stereoscopic daguerreotype, hand-colored, 2/6th plate department: Photography collection: PH - French 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alexis-Louis-Charles-Arthur Gouin (French, 1855) - artist --- measurements: Image: 6.5 x 5.5 cm (2 9/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Overall: 8.4 x 16.8 cm (3 5/16 x 6 5/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-05-27T00:00:00 19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 27-August 9, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 5/27/00 - 8/9/00. "19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: A master of commercial portrait photography, Gouin specialized in hand-painted stereoscopic daguerreotypes. Derived from the inventions of Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) in 1832 and Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) in 1849, the stereoscopic technique produced two almost identical photographic images. When seen simultaneously in a viewing instrument called a stereoscope, the resulting effect was an astonishing illusion of three-dimensional space. This rare example comes from an important group of nude studies Gouin created in the early 1850s. To create the image, Gouin carefully posed a favorite model--Delphine Herbé, a florist--in his third-floor studio where the bright, natural light would define her body. Drapery was used to relieve the monotony of the background and heighten the three-dimensionality of the model's form and echo its contours. Gouin's training as a painter of miniatures is evident in the delicacy of the hand-coloring and in the subtle, naturalistic application of pigment over the polished surface of the plate. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.8/1999.8_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.8/1999.8_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.8/1999.8_full.tif