Visite d'un ami de Lille
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/16 × 7 1/16 in. (15.4 × 17.9 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
2005.100.372.21
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Visite d'un ami Lille** (Visit of a Friend from Lille created in 1854 by French Louis-Pierre-Théophile de Nehaut, a charming moment of 19th-century social life This salted paper print from a paper depicts men, horses, and carriages grand buildings, evoking the arrival of a visitor from Lille, a bustling northern French city. At just 6 1/16 × 7 1/16 inches, the intimate image draws viewers into a poised, everyday scene blending urban architecture with equestrian elegance. Printed using the calotype process pioneered by William Henry Fox Talbot, this work exemplifies early photography's revol...
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 ...