Jerusalem. Épée de Godefroy de Bouillon (Jerusalem. The Sword of Godfroy of Bouillon)
1854
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 32.2 × 23.3 cm (12 11/16 × 9 3/16 in.) sheet: 58.6 × 44.5 cm (23 1/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
2015.6.1
About the Artist
Auguste Salzmann · 1824–1872
Born 15 april 1824. Salzmann travelled to Palestine in 1850 to 1851 as a draughtsman for a French expedition to the East. Salzmann returned to Paris, France in 1851 and learned photography which he used as an aid to his archaeological research. In 1853 Salzmann was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Instruction to visit Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and the islands of the Archipelago to photograph ...