Jérusalem, Piscine de Siloe, Détails
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 23.5 x 33.3 cm (9 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.) Mount: 44.7 x 60.2 cm (17 5/8 x 23 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.373.35
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1854, French photographer Auguste Salzmann captured ancient ruins of the Piscine de Siloe (Pool of Siloam) in Jerusalem with this salted paper print, produced by the renowned Imprimerie photographique deanquart-Évrard in Lille. The image focuses on intricate architectural details of the site's weathered stones and steps, evoking the biblical where, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus healed a blind man. Salzmann's expedition to the Holy Land amid mid-19th-century political tensions marked one of the earliest photographic documentations of these sacred sites, blending archaeology with eme...
About the Artist
Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille|Auguste Salzmann ( |French) · |1851 – |1855
French|French, active 1851–55