[Still Life with Game Birds]

[Still Life with Game Birds] by Charles Nègre

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Dimensions

Image: 43.8 x 34.9 cm (17 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.)

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2005

Accession Number

2005.100.314

Tags

BirdsStill Life

About the Artist

Charles Nègre · 18201880

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 ...

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