Le Midi de la France
Charles Nègre
1850s–60s
Medium
Albumen silver prints
Dimensions
24.4 x 29.4 x 6.3 cm (9 5/8 x 11 9/16 x 2 1/2 in. )
Classification
Albums
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg, 1998
Accession Number
1998.475
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 ...