[Self-Portrait in Eastern Costume]
1855–60
![[Self-Portrait in Eastern Costume] by Charles Nègre](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/self-portrait-in-eastern-costume-286164.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 18.7 x 13.8 cm (7 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.) Mount: 38.1 x 28.9 cm (15 x 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.328
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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 ...