Thèbes. Medinet-Habou. Propylées du Thoutmoseum
Maxime Du Camp
1852
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
163; 316; 446; 208
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, recto onder, gestempeld: ‘VOSMAER’
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...