Jérusalem, Tombeau des rois de Juda, Cour extérieure
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 23.2 x 32.2 cm (9 1/8 x 12 11/16 in.) Mount: 44.6 x 59.9 cm (17 9/16 x 23 9/16 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
2005.100.373.51
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the sun-baked ruins of ancient Jerusalem with Auguste Salzmann's *Jérusalem, Tombeau rois de Juda, Cour* (1854), a pioneering salted paper print from a negative. Capturing the outer court of the so-called Tomb of the Kings of Judahlikely the 1st-century tomb of Queen Helena of Adiabene photograph reveals weathered stone arches and courtyards shrouded in soft, diffused light, evoking the timeless mystery of biblical history. Salzmann, a French surgeon-turned-photographer, ventured to the Holy Land in 1853 amid Ottoman rule and rising European interest in Orientalism. His images, prin...
About the Artist
Auguste Salzmann|Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille · 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 ...