Vue de face du balcon avant l'entière construction de la place
Medium
Albumen silver print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 9 3/8 × 12 13/16 in. (23.8 × 32.5 cm) Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 1/8 in. (34 × 46 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.372.19
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the mid-19th century with *Vue de face du balcon avant l'entière construction de la place* (Front View of the Balcony before the Complete Construction of the Square), a captivating albumen silver print by French photographer Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, created between 1854 and 1856. This image captures a poised architectural moment: the elegant facade of a balcony overlooking an urban scene, poised on the cusp of transformation as a nearby public square nears completion. Dubois de Nehaut, active in early photography, specialized in documenting buildings, streets, and cit...
About the Artist
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut · 1799–1872
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut (1799–1872) was a French artist and early enthusiast of photography whose career bridged the worlds of traditional draughtsmanship and the new mechanical image-making technologies that transformed visual culture in the nineteenth century. Trained in the conventions of French academic art, he possessed the skills of a practiced draughtsman before turning his ...