Coiffure des Femmes de Nazareth
August 14, 1850
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
16.5 x 19.9 cm (6 1/2 x 7 13/16 in. ) Frame: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift and Gifts in memory of Harry H. Lunn Jr., 2000
Accession Number
2000.118
About the Artist
Maxime Du Camp · 1822–present
Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894) was a pioneering French photographer and writer whose adventurous spirit and technical innovation bridged literature and visual art during the mid-19th century. Born in Paris on February 8, 1822, to a prosperous family—his father a successful surgeon—Du Camp received a solid bourgeois education at the Collège Bourbon (now Lycée Condorcet), where he cultivated interests i...