Thanks Mainer,
Yes, I never shoot with a flash, as I do only cha-chas. The lighting at Christie's is usually, if nothing else, bright. Free-standing works of art and paintings are usually the best lighted. Objects displayed in glass cases can be tricky, with small high-intensity lights, but I try them once in a while.
Flash
--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Mainer <jamcojam(-at-)yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mainer <jamcojam(-at-)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Anaglyphs] Flash - Terracotta figure of bather, closeup- J. C. Marin (A)
To: anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 12:57 PM
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Nice Flash. Is there enough light to shoot these without a flash? It appears the shadow is from lighting of the subject by other than the camera. I have no luck with indoor poorly lit subjects.
Mainer
--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Flash <flash472002(-at-) yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Flash <flash472002(-at-) yahoo.com>
Subject: [Anaglyphs] Flash - Terracotta figure of bather, closeup- J. C. Marin (A)
To: "Anaglyph" <anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogrou ps.com>
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 11:39 AM
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Closeup of terracotta bather.
Flash
A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A BATHER
BY JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN, FRENCH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Depicting a nude woman, her hands raised to dry her hair, standing in front of a vase draped with a cloth
30in. (76.2cm.) high, on grey marble base
THE PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY
Provenance
William Randolph Hearst, sold Gimbels, New York 1943, lot 71A
The present lot is closely related to the life-size marble statue of 'Une Baigneuse', now in the Louvre Museum, which Marin carved in 1808. The statue was exhibited at the Salon of that year, and won immense popularity. Marin worked out the composition of the sculpture in a long series of statuettes, in which he experimented with minor variations in the positions of the hands and subtle changes in the coiffeur.
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