Roma
Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions
Prints approx. 8 3/4 x 11 1/4
Classification
Albums
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.799 (1–30)
Art Historical Context
**Roma**, created between 1848 and 1852 by the Parisian firm Eugène Constant andouard Mauche et Cie captures the timeless allure of Rome in one of photography's pioneering eras. This salted paper print made from a glass negative exemplifies early photographic innovation just a decade after the medium's public debut. Measuring about 8¾ x 11¼ inches, it is part of an album in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Photographs department, acquired through the Gilman Collection in 2005. Salted paper printing, perfected by William Henry Fox Talbot, produced warm-toned images with a soft, painterly quali...
About the Artist
Eugène Constant|Edouard Mauche et Cie · 1848–1855
Eugène Constant (before 1820 – after 1860) was a French painter who became one of the pioneering photographers of the 19th century, capturing the grandeur of Italy's ancient monuments with unprecedented clarity.) Trained as a painter in Paris during the early 1840s, where he maintained a studio at 31 rue du Marché-Saint-Honoré, Constant exhibited interior views of Venice's Basilica of San Marco an...