Grand Temple d'Isis, a Philoe
Maxime Du Camp
1850
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.1 × 22.1 cm (6 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.) mount: 30.7 × 44.9 cm (12 1/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert B. Menschel
Accession Number
2022.154.7
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...