Jérusalem, Vallée de Josaphat, Faces Ouest et Nord, 1
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 22.8 x 32.8 cm (9 x 12 15/16 in.) Mount: 44.5 x 60.4 cm (17 1/2 x 23 3/4 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
2005.100.373.41
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the ancient heart of Jerusalem with *Jérusalem, Vall de Josaphat, Ouest et Nord, 1* (1854), a pioneering salted paper print by Auguste Salzmann, produced at the Imprimerie photographique de Blart-Évrard in Lille. This evocative image captures the west and north faces of the of Jehoshaphat biblical site steeped in prophecy, believed by some to be the location of the Last Judgment. Salzmann, a French surgeon-turned-photographer, ventured to the Holy Land in 1853–54, creating one of the earliest systematic photographic records of its sacred landscapes and architecture. In the dawn of p...
About the Artist
Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille|Auguste Salzmann ( |French) · |1851 – |1855
French|French, active 1851–55