Profil du Portail; Entrée Du Cloitre, Arles, Eglise Metropolitaine de Saint-Trophime
1852
Medium
Salted paper prints from paper negatives
Dimensions
Image: 6 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (17.5 × 15 cm) (each) Mount: 15 7/8 × 11 7/16 in. (40.3 × 29 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.590.1a, b
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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 ...