Le Journal de la Photographie

Model Doris Fischer at the 100 year old Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, Michigan, in 1946. Photo © Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Model Doris Fischer at the 100 year old Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, Michigan, in 1946. Photo © Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Sculptor Chaim Gross sketches a nude model in 1942. Photo © Eliot Elisofon/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Matisse and model. Photo by Brassaï © Gilberte Brassaï Matisse dessinant un nu étendu. Photo by Brassaï © RMN-Grand Palais @Michèle Bellot Matisse and model. Photo by Brassai, 1939 © Succession H. Matisse © Estate Brassaï – RMN-Grand Palais Robert Rauschenberg’s nude model, 1951. Photo © Wallace Kirkland/ Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images L’Académie Julian de la rue du Dragon, modèle nu de face. Photo by Brassaï © RMN-Grand Palais @Michèle Bellot Jean Negulesco in his Hollywood studio © Jerry Cooke Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Artist David Fredenthal sketches a model in 1948. Photo © Gjon Mili/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Thomas Hart Benton on his painting, « The Rape of Persephone » © Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Thomas Hart Benton on his painting, « The Rape of Persephone » © Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Farnsworth Art School students painting a nude model in 1946 © Andreas Feininger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Toulouse Lautrec & Model Mirille, 1894. © Maurice Guibert