id: 168525 accession number: 2010.268 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.268 updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:40.641000 General View of Monuments Carved into Bedrock with Photographer's Dahabieh. Abu Simbel, 1851–1852. Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892). Salted paper print from a paper negative; image: 24.8 x 30.9 cm (9 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.); paper: 26.7 x 35.5 cm (10 1/2 x 14 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2010.268 title: General View of Monuments Carved into Bedrock with Photographer's Dahabieh. Abu Simbel title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1851–1852 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1852 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: salted paper print from a paper negative department: Photography collection: PH - French 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892) - artist Félix Teynard French, 1817-1892 Félix Teynard, believed to have been born in Grenoble, was a civil engineer who traveled and photographed in Egypt in 1851-52. Of the resulting plates, 160 were published in Paris by Goupil et Cie. and printed by H. de Fonteny in 32 installments of five each between 1853-54 under the title Egypte et Nubie. Sites et Monument les plus intéressantes pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire. . . . The collection later was published in 1857 by Goupil et Cie. for the extraordinary purchase price of nearly 1,000 francs. Although Teynard is not known to have photographed again, his calotypes of Egypt are prized for their strong personal sensibility. Light and shadow play a strong role, and complex scenes are reduced to broad and simple forms. Teynard returned to Egypt in 1869 from his home in Saint-Martin as an official guest at the opening of the Suez Canal. No evidence of photographic activity on this later journey has been found. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 24.8 x 30.9 cm (9 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.); Paper: 26.7 x 35.5 cm (10 1/2 x 14 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 pencil on verso: "300731.4" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Pyramids & Sphinxes: Views of Egypt opening date: 2016-02-06T00:00:00 Pyramids & Sphinxes: Views of Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-May 24, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE French book dealer; Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York; Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Teynard, a civil engineer, may have learned photography for his 1851–52 tour of Egypt, which he undertook “to study certain questions of personal interest.” In 1858 he published his photographic record of ancient sites, the most comprehensive to date, as a book of salted paper prints. Teynard traveled by dahabieh, a small passenger boat visible in this image. He asked his readers to grant some indulgence for photographers carrying out such painstaking work in an arduous locale like Egypt. “A nomad, his working method is always provisional, and the delicate preparations for his photography must be carried out on a small sailing boat rocking in the water, or under a tent standing in the midst of the desert.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.268/2010.268_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.268/2010.268_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.268/2010.268_full.tif