Le Pont-Neuf, les quais, les bains "A la Samaritaine" et la Tour St Jacques
1847, printed 1965
Medium
Gelatin silver print, No. 14 from the portfolio "Bayard: XXV Calotypes, 1842-1850" (1965)
Dimensions
Image/paper/mount: 17.2 × 23.1 cm (6 13/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
photographic process
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23788
Art Historical Context
Step into 19th-century Paris with Hippolyte Bayard's *Le Pont-Neuf, quais, les bains " la Samaritaine" la Tour St Jacques*1847, printed 1965), a early photograph that freezes the bustling heart of the city. Captured along the Seine, this gelatin silver print showcases iconic landmarks: the sturdy Pont-Neuf bridge, lively quays, the Samaritaine public baths, and the Gothic spire of Tour Saint-Jacques. Measuring a modest 17.2 × 23.1 cm, it's No. 14 from the 1965 portfolio *Bayard: XXV Calotypes, 1842-1850*, part of the Art Institute of Chicago's Photography and Media collection. Bayard, a Frenc...
About the Artist
Hippolyte Bayard · 1801–1887
Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887) was a French civil servant and artist who holds a remarkable, if bittersweet, place in the history of photography: he was one of the independent inventors of the photographic process in the late 1830s, developing his own direct positive paper print method at virtually the same moment that Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot were arriving at their own solutions ...