Le bucheron
Charles Nègre
possibly 1857, printed 1982
Medium
Photogravure, from the portfolio Charles Negre: Treize Heliogravures, 1854–1857
Dimensions
12.5 × 11 cm (4 15/16 × 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
100100
About the Artist
Charles Nègre · 1820–1880
Charles Nègre (1820–1880) was a French painter and photographer who became one of the most innovative practitioners of early photography. Born in Grasse in the south of France, he trained as a painter in Paris under Paul Delaroche, Michel Martin Drolling, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at the École des Beaux-Arts. He initially took up the calotype and later the collodion process as aids to his ...