Asile Impérial de Vincennes: la Lingerie
Charles Nègre
1859
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.1 × 17.1 cm (6 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.) mount: 21 × 22.2 cm (8 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.108
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 ...