A Street in Grasse
1852
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
32.9 x 23.8 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/8 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000
Accession Number
2000.286
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About the Artist
Charles Nègre · 1820–1880
Charles Nègre (1820–1880) was a French painter and photographer who became one of the most innovative practitioners of early photography. Born in Grasse in the south of France, he trained as a painter in Paris under Paul Delaroche, Michel Martin Drolling, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at the École des Beaux-Arts. He initially took up the calotype and later the collodion process as aids to his ...