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accession number: 1989.53
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Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie. Dessins photographiques receuillis pendant les années 1849,1850 et 1851 accompagnes d'un text explicatif et précédés d'une introduction par Maxime Du Camp, pl. 10: Southern Portion of the Rock-cut Temple of Hathor, Abu Simbel, 1850. Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894). Salted paper print from calotype negative, Blanquart-Évrard process; image: 16.5 x 21.5 cm (6 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.); paper: 29.5 x 37.5 cm (11 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1989.53
title: Southern Portion of the Rock-cut Temple of Hathor, Abu Simbel
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series: Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie. Dessins photographiques receuillis pendant les années 1849,1850 et 1851 accompagnes d'un text explicatif et précédés d'une introduction par Maxime Du Camp, pl. 10
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creation date: 1850
creation date earliest: 1850
creation date latest: 1850
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: salted paper print from calotype negative, Blanquart-Évrard process
department: Photography
collection: PH - French 19th Century
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894) - artist
Maxime Du Camp French, 1822-1894
Maxime Du Camp's only known photographic work is a series of calotypes of the Middle East taken in 1849-50 in the company of Gustave Flaubert. Born in Paris, Du Camp was a traveler and soldier, as well as a writer, artist, and editor. His adventurousness and outspoken opinions were thought to be representative of the progressive modernists who made up the younger generation of his day. Du Camp's voyage to the Middle East resulted in 220 calotype negatives, 125 of which were published by Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard in the illustrated Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie (1852). He also published a prose volume, Souvenirs et paysages de l'Orient (1848).
Du Camp had been dissatisfied with his artistic ability to record information during his previous travels, and in early 1849 he learned the waxed paper photographic process from Gustave Le Gray, perfecting it for his own use while in Egypt. Alexis de Lagrange assisted Du Camp by instructing him in Blanquart-Évrard's recent improvements. A decorated French counterrevolutionary in 1848, he joined Giuseppe Garibaldi in Italy in 1860. In later years he continued to travel, edit, and write, his views having become more conventional and conservative. In 1880 Du Camp was elected a member of the Académie française; he died 14 years later in the fashionable resort of Baden-Baden. T.W.F.
* Gide et J. Baudry - publisher
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measurements: Image: 16.5 x 21.5 cm (6 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 29.5 x 37.5 cm (11 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1989
opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).
title: Pyramids & Sphinxes: Views of Egypt
opening date: 2016-02-06T00:00:00
Pyramids & Sphinxes: Views of Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-May 24, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd.), Sussex, United Kingdom
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: June 29, 1989
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
E. H. T. "The Year in Review: Selections 1989." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (1990): 38-78.
page number: p. 67, no. 35
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25160106
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 141
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full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.53/1989.53_full.tif