#vintage phoograph

Looking a little bored, this sleepy-eyed yet endearingly sweet-faced model poses in the studio of Gustav Moreau, photographer Henri Rupp providing anatomical reference for a later painted scene. He does not look at all enthusiastic about his role in the process, as though this has been going on plenty long enough and he would rather be elsewhere now!

“Now Sir, you give me your word, you shall not venture out in the cold without this fur-trimmed overcoat!”
How curious, I should happen across a second 19th century photograph to feature stern pointing, so soon after the last.