Cathédrale de Chartres - Portique du Midi XIIe Siècle
Charles Nègre
c. 1854, printed c. 1857
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 53 × 73 cm (20 7/8 × 28 3/4 in.) sheet: 59.3 × 80 cm (23 3/8 × 31 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Sarah and William L Walton Fund
Accession Number
2008.92.1
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 ...