Moulin de la Galette (Montmartre)
1842
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image: 21.5 × 16.2 cm (8 1/2 × 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 22.3 × 16.8 cm (8 13/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Mount: 33 × 24.9 cm (13 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
206652
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The invention of photography was announced to the world in France (by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and his partner, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre) and in England (by William Henry Fox Talbot) in 1839. At the same time, however, Hippolyte Bayard was conducting his own photographic experiments. Now recognized as one of the inventors of photography, Bayard held the first photographic exhibition in the world (also in 1839), and continued to photograph and promote photography in France for several decades....
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 ...