[Still Life with Statuary]
Early 1850s
![[Still Life with Statuary] by Hippolyte Bayard](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/still-life-with-statuary-285907.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 26.2 x 20.2 cm (10 5/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, William Talbott Hillman Foundation Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.379
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About the Artist
Hippolyte Bayard · 1801–1887
Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887) was a French civil servant and artist who holds a remarkable, if bittersweet, place in the history of photography: he was one of the independent inventors of the photographic process in the late 1830s, developing his own direct positive paper print method at virtually the same moment that Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot were arriving at their own solutions ...