Maxime Du Camp
Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie: dessins photographiques recueillis pendant les années 1849, 1850 et 1851
- Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie: dessins photographiques recueillis pendant les années 1849, 1850 et 1851
- Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, and Syria: Photographs Gathered during the Years 1849, 1850, and 1851
Sheet (Each average): 6 5/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16 × 21.5 cm)
Mount (Each): 17 1/8 × 11 13/16 in. (43.5 × 30 cm)
Overall (Album): 18 1/8 × 13 × 2 3/4 in. (46 × 33 × 7 cm)
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As the first major photographic survey of monuments and archeological sites throughout Egypt and the Middle East and the most ambitious photographically illustrated book yet produced, Maxime Du Camp’s Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie delighted European audiences. Traveling down the Nile with his friend the writer Gustave Flaubert, Du Camp made pictures emphasizing descriptive clarity and a romanticized sense of Egypt as a lost civilization and a root of Western culture. The lone human depicted throughout Du Camp’s photographs is his boatman and assistant, Hajj Ishmael, ostensibly posed to provide a sense of scale.
ProvenancePrivate collection, England; ["Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History", Sotheby’s London, November 17, 2021, lot 50]; [Photo Vintage France, Arnaville]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
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