[Plaster Casts of Bishops' Miters, South Porch, Chartres]

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Medium

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 · 18201880

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 ...

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