[The 15th of August. Imperial Asylum at Vincennes]
1858
![[The 15th of August. Imperial Asylum at Vincennes] by Charles Nègre](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/the-15th-of-august-imperial-asylum-at-vincennes-286165.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 32.3 x 44.2 cm (12 11/16 x 17 3/8 in.), oval Mount: 47.5 x 60.5 cm (18 11/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.327
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 ...