Goya death

LÉOPOLD REUTLINGER (1863-1937)

Paris. Ca. 1890.

Albumen photography on cardboard.

Slight signs of use.

At the end of the XIX century, a type of mainly female portraits on cardboard or wooden Moons became fashionable in various photographic studios in America and Europe, which delved into the topic of the link between women and the Moon, both inducing love passion.

The popularity of the theme was such that it did not take long for various versions and variants to emerge, among which there were also numerous erotic postcards in which languid women took advantage of the sickle shape to adopt suggestive ways of posing naked.