Chartres Cathedral. Right Door of the Royal Portal, West Side, XII Century
Charles Nègre
before July 1857
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
sheet: 93.35 x 67.95 cm (36 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.) image: 72.2 x 47.9 cm (28 7/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Diana and Mallory Walker Fund
Accession Number
2010.61.1
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 ...