#durieu

It has been a while since I added to the 1855 set of Delacroix’s reference photographs, taken by Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu. These early images appear dark and hazy, due to the limits of photographic technology of the time, but all the more appealing for it.

Although the darkened grainy gloom of this photograph is merely the result of the inefficiency of early cameras, it certainly makes for an artistically atmospheric effect, when looked at from an aesthetic point of view rather than evaluating the technical side! Taken by Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu in association with Eugène Delacroix, circa 1855.

A further example from the 1855 set of reference photographs taken by Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu with Eugène Delacroix, depicting this muscular male model in a variety of poses.

Dated around 1855, this photograph is substantially earlier than many in my collection. By Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu (1800 -1874).

A further addition to the 1855 set of reference photographs taken by Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu, for the famed artist Eugène Delacroix. 

A notable early photographic session by Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu in 1855, many of the images of this particular model survive to this day, his powerful poses enacted in the studio to aid artists in figure drawing without the need to hire a live model.