[Elderly Lady Sitting]
![[Elderly Lady Sitting] by Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/elderly-lady-sitting-287245.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 9 5/16 × 6 3/4 in. (23.7 × 17.2 cm) Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 1/8 in. (34 × 46 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.372.10
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the mid-1850s, as photography emerged from its experimental infancy, Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Neaut captured intimate portraits like *Elderly Lady Sitting*. between 1854 and 1856, this salted paper from a paper negative exemplifies the calotype process, pioneered by William Henry Fox Talbot. Popular in France during this era, calotypes used translucent paper negatives to produce multiple soft-focused positives, lending a painterly, atmospheric quality reminiscent of 19th-century drawings. The image measures 9 5/16 × 6 3/4 inches, with the full sheet at 13 3/8 × 18 1/8 inches, showc...
About the Artist
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut · 1799–1872
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut (1799–1872) was a French artist and early enthusiast of photography whose career bridged the worlds of traditional draughtsmanship and the new mechanical image-making technologies that transformed visual culture in the nineteenth century. Trained in the conventions of French academic art, he possessed the skills of a practiced draughtsman before turning his ...