Jardin zoologique de Bruxelles; Les trois jumeaux fils de Mr. Lebens et toute la famille
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 5 13/16 × 7 11/16 in. (14.7 × 19.5 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
2005.100.372.29
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 1850s Brussels with *Jardin zoologique de Bruxelles Les trois jumeaux de Mr. Lebens et toute la famille*, a salted paper print by Louis-Pierre-Théophile de Nehaut, between 1854 and 1856. Captured at the city's newly opened zoo—a popular destination for bourgeois leisure—this charming photograph features the three triplet sons of Mr. Lebens posed with their family amid horse-drawn carriages. It offers a rare glimpse into mid-19th-century family life, blending portraiture with the excitement of urban outings. Dubois de Nehaut, a pioneering French photographer, emp...
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 ...