Thebes: Karnak, Portique de Temple de Khons
Maxime Du Camp
1850
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 21 x 16.5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) support: 44.7 x 31.1 cm (17 5/8 x 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.79
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...