La vérité qui se cache.

Magaud, Dominique Antoine Jean Baptiste, 1817-1899.

Date:: [approximately 19th century?]

Reference:: 534916i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

Pictures

Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Photographic portraits.
  - La vérité qui se cache.534916i

About this work

Also known as

Title replaced, April 2022: A photograph of a painting by Magaud, showing a young woman posing naked in a classical attitude holding a mirror at the bottom of a well. Photograph, 1882.

Description

Bénézit, 1999, records that the full title of this painting concludes with "... dans un puits". He says this painting is at the Musée de Beaux-Arts at Toulon. However, it may have been destroyed during the Second World War

Publication/Creation

[approximately 19th century?]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

The Hidden Truth. Lettering handwritten on the verso: La vérité qui se cache W. Magaud Paris Salon 1882 Bears number 2171

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 534916i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.