Station de Malines, Epreuve instantanée au passage d'un train au soleil couchant
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 6 5/8 × 8 7/16 in. (16.8 × 21.4 cm) Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 1/8 in. (34 × 46 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.372.22
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the smoky haze of 1850s Europe with *Station de Malines, Epreuve instantanée au d'un train au soleilchant* by Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut. Captured between 1854 and 1856 at the Mechelen railway in Belgium, this salted paper print vividly freezes a steam train hurtling past at sunset. The warm glow of the setting sun bathes the scene in golden light, contrasting the iron might of the locomotive with the fading day—a perfect emblem of the Industrial Revolution's relentless progress. Dubois de Nehaut employed the calotype process, using a paper negative to produce this "ins...
About the Artist
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut · 1799–1872
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut (1799–1872) was a French artist and early enthusiast of photography whose career bridged the worlds of traditional draughtsmanship and the new mechanical image-making technologies that transformed visual culture in the nineteenth century. Trained in the conventions of French academic art, he possessed the skills of a practiced draughtsman before turning his ...