[Classical Head]
probably 1839
![[Classical Head] by Hippolyte Bayard](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/classical-head-829987.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (16.5 × 15 cm) Mount: 13 1/2 in. × 10 13/16 in. (34.3 × 27.5 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019
Accession Number
2019.309
Tags
About the Artist
Hippolyte Bayard · 1801–1887
Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887) was a French civil servant and artist who holds a remarkable, if bittersweet, place in the history of photography: he was one of the independent inventors of the photographic process in the late 1830s, developing his own direct positive paper print method at virtually the same moment that Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot were arriving at their own solutions ...