Désiré Charnay
Détail de la façade orientale du palais des nonnes à Uxmal (Yucatan)

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Détail de la façade orientale du palais des nonnes à Uxmal (Yucatan)
  • Detail of the Eastern Facade of the Palace of the Nuns, Uxmal (Yucatan)
Date1860
Place depictedMexico
MediumSalted paper print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 13 3/8 × 17 1/16 in. (34 × 43.4 cm)
Sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 1/16 in. (34 × 43.4 cm)
Mount: 20 1/2 × 29 15/16 in. (52 × 76 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2022.802
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay was the first photographer to produce a substantial survey of ancient Maya sites in the Yucatan, most of them little known, engulfed by jungle, and difficult to access. When his photographs were shown in Paris in 1861, French photography critic Ernest Lacan wrote, “Photography covers the world, searching and finding everywhere beautiful objects for the study of artists and scholars. Soon there will not be a corner of the world that has not been explored by photographers. Honor be to the courageous, resolute and talented men who dedicate their energies to such work.”



ProvenanceThe artist; given to Julio Michaud (b. 1807–d. 1876), Mexico City; […]; [Kiefer Buch- und Kunstuauktionen, Pforzheim, Germany, December 14, 2019, lot 532]; [purchased by Serge Kakou and Bruno Tartarin, Paris]; [by division to Bruno Tartarin]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, mount recto, bottom left: Ruinas de [?]alinque -3.
Inscribed in pencil, mount recto, bottom left: 552
Inscribed in pecil, mount verso, bottom left: 25668

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Salted paper print from glass negative
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