Gournah. Palais de Ménephta 1er
Maxime Du Camp
1849–51
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image: 5 1/2 × 8 5/8 in. (14 × 21.9 cm) Mount: 8 3/8 in. × 11 9/16 in. (21.2 × 29.4 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.967.1 (9)
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...