Égypte Moyenne, Le Sphinx
December 1849, printed 1852
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 6 3/16 × 8 3/16 in. (15.7 × 20.8 cm) Mount: 12 in. × 17 3/8 in. (30.5 × 44.2 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2015
Accession Number
2015.778.35
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Maxime Du Camp|Gide et Baudry|Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille · 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...