Isis et Horus-Arsiési - Bas-relief du Temple de Kalabcheh (Talmis)
April 8, 1850
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 8 9/16 × 6 7/16 in. (21.7 × 16.3 cm) Image: 8 7/8 × 6 9/16 in. (22.5 × 16.7 cm) Mount: 18 11/16 × 12 5/16 in. (47.5 × 31.2 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
2005.100.376.128
Tags
Art Historical Context
This salted paper print, titled *Isis et Horus-Arsiési - Bas-relief du Temple de Kalabh (Talmis)*, captures a finely carved ancient Egyptian bas-relief from Temple of Kalabsha (ancient Talmis) in Nub. Photographed by Maxime Du Camp April 8, 1850, it depicts the goddess Isis nursing her son Horus-Arsiési, a poignant symbol of maternal protection and divine kingship central to Egyptian mythology. The temple, dedicated primarily to the god Mandulis, blends Greco-Roman and traditional Egyptian styles, reflecting Nubia's role as a cultural crossroads. Du Camp, a pioneering French photographer and ...
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...