Untitled (Still life with a statuette of the Venus de Milo)

1852

Classical sculpture meets photographic innovation in this early still life, demonstrating the artistic ambitions of photography's pioneering practitioners using the challenging waxed paper negative process.

Medium: Waxed paper negative

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John Beasley Greene, Untitled (Still life with a statuette of the Venus de Milo), 1852

Medium: Waxed paper negative
Year: 1852
Seen at: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art