Palmiers Doums à Hamarneh
1849–50
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 6 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (16.9 × 21.2 cm) Mount: 12 5/16 × 18 11/16 in. (31.2 × 47.5 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.376.37
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Palmiers Doums à Hamarneh** *Maxime Du Camp, 1849–50* Salted paper print from paper, 6 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (16.9 × 21.2 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, York, Gilman Collection, Gift of Howard Gilman Foundation,2005 Step into the sun-drenched landscapes of mid-19th-century Egypt Maxime Du Camp's *Palmiers Doums à Hamarneh*. Captured during Du Camp's pioneering 1849–50 expedition alongside writer Gustave Flaubert, this photograph depicts the iconic doum palms—tall, fan-leaved trees native to the Nile Valley—at the site of Hamarneh. As one of the earliest photographers to document the ...
About the Artist
Maxime Du Camp · 1822–present
Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894) was a pioneering French photographer and writer whose adventurous spirit and technical innovation bridged literature and visual art during the mid-19th century. Born in Paris on February 8, 1822, to a prosperous family—his father a successful surgeon—Du Camp received a solid bourgeois education at the Collège Bourbon (now Lycée Condorcet), where he cultivated interests i...