Cathedrale de Chartres, Côté Occidental, Porte Latérale de Droite, XIIe Siècle (Chartres Cathedral, West Side, Right Side Door, XII Century)
Charles Nègre
c. 1857
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 60 × 45 cm (23 5/8 × 17 11/16 in.) sheet: 71.5 × 55 cm (28 1/8 × 21 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Accession Number
2013.148.1
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 ...