Statue des Tuileries: G. Marsy et A. Flamen: Borée enlevant Orythie
Charles Nègre
1859
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 43.6 x 35 cm (17 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 44.7 x 36.4 cm (17 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.109
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 ...