The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes
1858–59
Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions
34.2 x 42.5 cm (13 7/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Hans P. Kraus Jr. and Mariana Cook, in honor of André and Marie-Thérèse Jammes, 1998
Accession Number
1998.132
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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 ...