Le Midi de la France
Charles Nègre
1850s–60s
Medium
Albumen silver prints
Dimensions
24.4 x 29.4 x 6.3 cm (9 5/8 x 11 9/16 x 2 1/2 in. )
Classification
Albums
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg, 1998
Accession Number
1998.475
Rights
Public Domain
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 ...