id: 159283 accession number: 1995.76 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.76 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:29.643000 The Royal Porcelain Factory at Sèvres, c. 1851–1852. Henri-Victor Regnault (French, 1810–1878). Salted paper print from calotype negative; image: 35.1 x 43.9 cm (13 13/16 x 17 5/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1995.76 title: The Royal Porcelain Factory at Sèvres title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1851–1852 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1852 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: salted paper print from calotype negative department: Photography collection: PH - French 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Henri-Victor Regnault (French, 1810–1878) - artist Henri-Victor Regnault French, 1810-1878 The work of French calotypist Henri-Victor Regnault (born in Aix-la-Chapelle) remains fervently admired. A physicist and chemist, he taught at the École Polytechnique and Collège de France. Working with his students in 1847, he verified Blanquart-Évrard's advancements, using paper to obtain negatives. He also began making photographs himself. From 1852-71 Regnault served as director of the famous porcelain factory, the Manufacture de Sèvres. While his tenure there was marked by considerable displeasure with his highly scientific approach, his artistic style seems to have flourished through photography. His landscape views and portraiture, radically simple in conception and deeply emotional in tone, seem polar opposites of the highly finished, ornate work he produced in his official position. Regnault was at the center of a serious group of amateur photographers in Sèvres, which included Louis-Rémy Robert and E. Béranger. He was a founding member of the Société héliographique (1851) and the Société française de photographie (1854), which he served as president from 1855-68. He was also made an honorary member of the Royal Photographic Society in London. His work is known to have been collected by other photographers, including John Stewart, the British photographer whose own group was based at Pau in southern France. Regnault eventually left photography after the death of his son in the Franco-Prussian war and the war-related destruction of his laboratory in Sèvres. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 35.1 x 43.9 cm (13 13/16 x 17 5/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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 Given by Regnault to Louis-Rémy Robert date: footnotes: citations: Given by Regnault to Louis-Rémy Robert date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 272 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.76/1995.76_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.76/1995.76_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.76/1995.76_full.tif