[Paris Rooftops]
![[Paris Rooftops] by Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/paris-rooftops-286254.webp)
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
Image: 2 5/8 × 3 11/16 in. (6.7 × 9.3 cm) Mount: 5 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (14 × 18.7 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1322
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau · 1819–1896
**Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau (1819–1896)** was a French physicist whose pioneering work in photography placed him among the earliest practitioners of the medium as both a scientific tool and an artistic pursuit. Born in Paris to Louis and Beatrice Fizeau, he married into the prominent de Jussieu botanical family. His earliest experiments focused on refining photographic processes, particularly ...