“Two Standing Female Nudes” by Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin is a daguerreotype from 1850. Moulin himself is one of the characters within Paris Red. In the novel, Victorine visits Moulin’s studio twice. The first time, with Nise, to be photographed as a pair and individually. Later, she revisits Moulin’s studio with Manet, to be photographed in the pose Manet was painting. Just as depicted in the novel, Moulin’s work was in photographing young women, typically in the nude. In 1851, Moulin was fined and sentenced to a month in jail for producing these images that the Cour d’assises de la Seine determined was a “violation of public morality.” Many of his images from the time disappeared, presumably destroyed by the court. Despite this, Moulin continued his photography and his sale of académies– the polite and cryptic term for nude studies used by artists. Like in the book, painters such as Manet would have purchased such académies to use as reference in art. Moulin’s photography straddles the thin line between art and erotica that was enforced by law at the time, and the attitude toward sex and “decency” which is a prominent theme of Paris Red.