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"description": "Charles N\u00e8gre, a history painter by training, was a pioneering 19th-century French photographer. In 1859 he received government support to produce a series of fifty images of statuary in Paris's Tuileries Gardens. Although the project was never completed, N\u00e8gre did create a group of large-format glass negatives. This photograph represents one of a small number of unique prints from those negatives. The Tiber, a late 17th-century stone sculpture of the river god Tiber, is one of the garden's four water sculptures depicting water deities.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"biography": "Charles N\u00e8gre French, 1820-1880\r\n\r\nA key figure in early French photography, Charles N\u00e8gre provides a link to photography's roots in painting and other visual arts. N\u00e8gre (born in Grasse) was a successful painter who had studied with Paul Delaroche, Michel Drolling, and Jean-Dominique Ingres. Beginning in 1843 he exhibited his work in various salons, winning high awards in 1851-52. His paintings were praised and purchased by, among others, Napol\u00e9on III.\r\n\tLike many other 19th-century artists, N\u00e8gre initially began making photographs to aid his painting. In 1844 he produced several daguerreotypes before later switching to calotypes. He soon developed a personal style, using the textured quality of the paper negative to subordinate detail to overall effect in his images, an approach he continued in various media throughout his career. Among N\u00e8gre's innovative subjects were street scenes that combined an intimacy of vision with the immediacy of urban life, presented with a painter's attention to composition. Many of these were presented in an 1851 exhibition of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 heliographique. A founding member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de photographie, he was also a consummate architectural photographer, receiving numerous government commissions.\r\n\tN\u00e8gre's technical innovations, especially in the photogravure process, a subject on which he was an acknowledged authority, contributed to the development of photography. He never gave up his painting, however, and became a drawing master at the Lyc\u00e9e Imp\u00e9rial in Nice after moving there in 1863 for health reasons. T.W.F.",
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