Thèbes, Medinet Habou, Galeries du Palais (Palace Galleries at Medinet Habou, Thebes)
Maxime Du Camp
1851
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 19.4 × 15 cm (7 5/8 × 5 7/8 in.) mount: 44.4 × 30.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation
Accession Number
2018.7.25
About the Artist
Maxime Du Camp · 1822–present
Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894) was a pioneering French photographer and writer whose adventurous spirit and technical innovation bridged literature and visual art during the mid-19th century. Born in Paris on February 8, 1822, to a prosperous family—his father a successful surgeon—Du Camp received a solid bourgeois education at the Collège Bourbon (now Lycée Condorcet), where he cultivated interests i...