Académies and études d'après nature
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From the middle of the 19th century onwards académies (literaly English: academies) or études d'après nature (studies after nature) were a euphemisms for a nude photographs.
Collections of these type of photographs were published in magazines and anthologies such as Émile Bayard's Le Nu esthetique (The Esthetic Nude), Bruno Meyer's La Grace feminine [Feminine Grace] and Guy de Téramond's La Beauté du nu [The Beauty of the Nude].
These photographs were sold as artists models to art students but also to the general public in the 19th and early 20th century. Several were used for well-known works by Gustave Courbet. For example, Courbet's The Bathers is based on this[1] photograph by Julien Vallou de Villeneuve.
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See also
- Art nude
- Venus in the 19th century
- Figure study
- Nude photography
- Daguerreotype
- Academic art
- Erotic photography
- Painting and photography
- Charles Bargue
- Le Nu au Salon
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