Ensemble du Temple d'Isis à Philae - Vue prise au Nord
April 1850
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 6 in. × 8 3/4 in. (15.2 × 22.2 cm) Mount: 12 5/16 × 18 11/16 in. (31.2 × 47.5 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
2005.100.376.111
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the sun-drenched ruins of ancient Egypt with Maxime Du Camp's *Ensemble du Temple d'Isis Philae - Vue prise Nord*, a salted paper print captured in April 1850. panoramic view from the north showcases the majestic Temple of Isis at Philae, a Ptolemaic-era marvel dedicated to the goddess of magic and motherhood. Nestled on an island in the Nile, the temple's intricate columns, pylons, and hieroglyph-covered walls evoke the grandeur of Egypt's pharaonic past, frozen in time just before modern threats like the Aswan Dam would relocate it. Du Camp, a pioneering French photographer and tr...
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...