Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904)
Phryné devant l’aréopage (Phryné before the Areopagus)
1861
Oil on canvas, 80 x 128 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Compare:
Nadar (1820-1910)
Femme nue debout
1860–1861
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Nadar is known to have photographed only three female nudes. This one was made at the behest of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme to assist in the process of painting Phryné before the Areopagus, displayed at the Salon of 1861.