id: 159310 accession number: 1996.10 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.10 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:29.816000 Jérusalem: Étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'époque Judaïque jusqu'a nos jours: Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem, 1854. Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872). Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process, from waxed paper negative; image: 22.7 x 32.8 cm (8 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1996.10 title: Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem title in original language: series: Jérusalem: Étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'époque Judaïque jusqu'a nos jours series in original language: creation date: 1854 creation date earliest: 1854 creation date latest: 1854 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process, from waxed paper negative department: Photography collection: PH - French 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872) - artist Auguste Salzmann French, 1824-1872 Born into a family of painters in Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin in Alsace, Auguste Salzmann exhibited his canvases of landscapes in the Paris Salons of 1847, 1848, and 1850. This artistic background, along with his distinctive subject matter, contributed to Salzmann's photographic style. His photographs were exhibited only once during his lifetime, at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Primarily interested in archaeology, he belonged to no photographic societies and considered his photographic work merely a tool. Salzmann visited Palestine (1850-51) and Jerusalem (1853), combining a project to record the monuments left by the Crusaders with another that tried to prove the work of scholar Louis-Félicien-Joseph Caignart de Saulcy, whose controversial historical and architectural theories involved the dating of buildings within the ancient city. The resulting images were published by Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard in Jérusalem, époques judaique, romaine, chrétienne, arabe, explorations photographique par A. Salzmann (1854). In these extremely intense studies, light and form were used to animate the ancient buildings and landscape of the Middle East. A journey to Rhodes (185-67) led to another publication, Nécropole de Camiros, which documented a site Salzmann is believed to have discovered. Although much of the biographical information about Salzmann is unclear and remains a subject of debate, his work continues to be influential and admired. T.W.F. * Gide et J. Baudry - publisher --- measurements: Image: 22.7 x 32.8 cm (8 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in negative: "89"; in pencil on verso: "4011" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 4, 1996 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. 314 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,” March 18, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4027 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.10/1996.10_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.10/1996.10_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.10/1996.10_full.tif