id: 157339 accession number: 1994.201 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.201 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:18.909000 The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris, 1859. Charles Nègre (French, 1820–1880). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 36.5 x 44.6 cm (14 3/8 x 17 9/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1994.201 title: The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1859 creation date earliest: 1859 creation date latest: 1859 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Charles Nègre (French, 1820–1880) - artist Charles Nègre French, 1820-1880 A key figure in early French photography, Charles Nègre provides a link to photography's roots in painting and other visual arts. Nègre (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, Napoléon III. Like many other 19th-century artists, Nègre 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 Nègre'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 Société heliographique. A founding member of the Société française de photographie, he was also a consummate architectural photographer, receiving numerous government commissions. Nègre'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 Lycée Impérial in Nice after moving there in 1863 for health reasons. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 36.5 x 44.6 cm (14 3/8 x 17 9/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: " 4/21/81 LM FH80.655" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). title: Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2005-02-26T00:00:00 Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-June 16, 2005). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 26 - June 16, 2005 . "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art".', 'opening_date': '2005-02-26T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr3939/page/n1 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 254 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.201/1994.201_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.201/1994.201_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.201/1994.201_full.tif