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accession number:	1992.235
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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: Colossol Monolith of Amenhotep III, Gournah, 1849–51. Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894), Gide et J. Baudry. Salted paper print from calotype negative, Blanquart-Évrard process; image: 19.5 x 16.5 cm (7 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.235

title:				Colossol Monolith of Amenhotep III, Gournah
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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
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creation date:			1849–51
creation date earliest:		1849
creation date latest:		1851
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings 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: 19.5 x 16.5 cm (7 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
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	inscription:	Printed on verso of mount: "Thèbes / Maxime Du Camp, Gide et Baudry, Editeurs / Gournah, / Colosse Monolithe d'Aménopht III, / Imprimerie Photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille / Pl. 56"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, May 19 - September 6, 1992: "Nineteenth Century Views of Egypt," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1992-05-19T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 17, 1992
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 46, 68
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 141
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IMAGES

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