Arlesiennes dans le Cloître de Saint-Trophime (Women from Arles in the Cloisters of Saint Trophime)
Charles Nègre
1852/1854
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 21.4 × 16 cm (8 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 62.9 × 43.4 cm (24 3/4 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2018.173.2
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 ...