Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie: dessins photographiques recueillis pendant les années 1849, 1850 et 1851

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Artist Maxime Du Camp(French, 1822–1894)French, 1822–1894

CultureFrench

Titles

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

Date1849–1852

Place depictedEgypt

Place depictedSyria

Place depictedPalestine

MediumBook of salted paper prints from paper negatives

DimensionsImage (Each average): 6 5/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16 × 21.5 cm)
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)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2022.788.1-.125

Non exposé

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Description

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.
Published References Ballerini, Julia, “The In-Visibility of Hadji-Ishmael: Du Camp’s 1850 Photographs of Egypt,” in The Body Imaged, edited by Kathleen Adler and Marcia Pointon, London: Cambridge University Press, 1993 Ballerini, Julia, The Stillness of Hajj Ishmael: Maxime Du Camp’s Photographs of Egypt, 1850, Publisher t.b.a. 2003. Bonaccorso, Giovanni, Du Camp: Voyage en Orient, Messina. Dewachter, Michel and Daniel Oster, Un voyageur en Egypte vers 1850: “Le Nil” de Maxime Du Camp, Paris: Sand/Conti, 1987 (Annotated edition of Du Camp’s Le Nil with introductory essays and illustrations.) Maynial, Edouard, “Flaubert orientaliste et le Livre posthume de Maxime Du Camp” in Revue de litterature comparée 8, 1923, 78–108. McCauley, Elizabeth Anne, “The Photographic Adventure of Maxime Du Camp,” in Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 19, 1982, 19–51. Peloritana, 1972 (Annotated edition of Du Camp’s unpublished travel notes). Pierrot, Roger, “Maxime Du Camp, photographe de Jérusalem” in Bulletin de la Bibliothèque nationale, December 1980, 167–172. Senneville, Gérard de, Maxime Du Camp: Un spectateur engagé du XIX siècle, Paris: Stock, 1996. Steegmuller, Francis, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour, Boston: Little Brown, 1972. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed title page: "EGYPTE // NUBIE // PALESTINE ET SYRIE // DESSINS PHTOOGRAPHIQUES // RECUEILLIS // PENDANT LES ANNEES 1849, 1850 ET 1851 // ACCOMPAGNES // D'UN TEXTE EXPLICATIF ET PRECEDES D'UNE INTRODUCTION // PAR // MAXIME DU CAMP // CHARGE D'UNE MISSION ARCHEOLOGIQUE EN ORIENT PAR LE MINISTERE DE L'INSTRUCITON PUBLIQUE // PARIS // GIDE ET J. BAUDRY, EDITEURS // DES CATACOMBES DE ROME --NINIVE -- VOYAGE EN PERSE -- CULTES DE MITRA ET DE VENUS, ETC., ETC. // 5 RUE BONAPARTE, ANCIENNE RUE DES PETITS-AUGUSTINS // 1852"; printed mounts for each photograph indicating subject.

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