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Muybridge, Eadweard
(1830-1904)Elberon walking, saddled

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Elberon, Walking, Saddled. 1884-85. Collotype, printed 1887. Plate 579 from Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. 22 x 34,5 cm (sheet 48,5 x 61 cm). Printed below image with copyright notice, title and plate number.

Muybridge first achieved international renown through his 1878 sequential photographs of a galloping horse, which demonstrated that all four hooves leave the ground during part of the stride. Under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, he expanded these investigations in 1884-85 to encompass human and animal movement. Published in 1887, Animal Locomotion comprised 781 collotype plates and offered an unprecedented analysis of successive phases of motion, with a lasting influence on both scientific study and the visual arts. Another impression is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.