[Album of photographs]
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Medium
32 salted paper prints, waxed salted paper prints, and albumen silver prints from paper and glass negatives
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 7 5/8 to 9 1/4 x 12
Classification
Albums
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.372.1–.32
Art Historical Context
Step into the dawn of photography with *Album of Photographs* by Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, created between 1854 and 1856. This intimate collection of 32 prints, housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gilman Collection, captures the experimental spirit of mid-19th-century imaging. Ranging in size from 5¾ x 7⅝ to 9¼ x 12 inches, the album showcases Dubois de Nehaut's skill as an early practitioner, blending salted paper prints—pioneered in the calotype process—with waxed variants for enhanced clarity and albumen silver prints derived from both paper and glass negatives. These...
About the Artist
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut · 1799–1872
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut (1799–1872) was a French artist and early enthusiast of photography whose career bridged the worlds of traditional draughtsmanship and the new mechanical image-making technologies that transformed visual culture in the nineteenth century. Trained in the conventions of French academic art, he possessed the skills of a practiced draughtsman before turning his ...