Who created "The Chess Players"?

The Chess Players was created by Antoine-François-Jean Claudet|Nicolaas Henneman in ca. 1845.

When was "The Chess Players" created?

This artwork was created ca. 1845.

What medium is "The Chess Players"?

The Chess Players is Salted paper print from paper negative.

Is "The Chess Players" in the public domain?

Yes, The Chess Players is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

The Chess Players

Antoine-François-Jean Claudet|Nicolaas Henneman

ca. 1845

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in. (24.5 × 19.6 cm) Image: 7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in. (19.8 × 14.7 cm)

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012

Accession Number

2013.159.40

Tags

MenChessGames

Art Historical Context

In the mid-1840s, as photography emerged from its experimental infancy, *The Chess Players* captures a quiet moment of intellectual leisure between two men absorbed in a chess game. around 1845 by Antoine-François Claudet, a pioneering French-born photographer and chemist based in London, in collaboration with his assistant Nicolaas Henneman this salted paper print from a paper exemplifies the calotype process. Invented by William Henry Fox Talbot just a few years earlier, calotype's paper negative allowed for multiple prints from a single exposure—a revolutionary leap from the unique images o...

The Chess Players

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