The Pope's Palace, Avignon
Charles Nègre
c. 1851, printed 1970
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image: 33.5 × 24 cm (13 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 34.7 × 26.4 cm (13 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
36918
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 ...