Égypte Moyenne, Le Sphinx
December 1849, printed 1852
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 6 3/16 × 8 3/16 in. (15.7 × 20.8 cm) Mount: 12 in. × 17 3/8 in. (30.5 × 44.2 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2015
Accession Number
2015.778.35
Tags
About the Artist
Maxime Du Camp|Gide et Baudry|Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille · 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...