[Plaster Casts of Bishops' Miters, South Porch, Chartres]
1855
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Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 22 x 32.5 cm (8 11/16 x 12 13/16 in.) Frame: 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 2002
Accession Number
2002.278
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 ...