Charles Nègre
Pifferari

ArtistFrench, 1820–1880
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Pifferari
  • [Italian Street Musicians]
Date1853
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 5 7/8 × 7 13/16 in. (15 × 19.8 cm)
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 7 13/16 in. (15 × 19.8 cm)
Mount: 6 3/16 × 8 1/16 in. (15.7 × 20.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.624
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Trained as a painter in the studio of Paul Delaroche, Charles Nègre was among the first generation of paper-print photographers in France, beginning in the early 1850s. With the instability of chemically based photographs evident from the start, Nègre and others worked to develop an effective process for printing photographs in ink. Here, a picturesque scene of musicians is printed as a salt print, an albumen print, an unretouched photogravure, and a second photogravure with extensive handwork. While other inventors boasted of the purity of their gravure processes, Nègre appears to have been unafraid to apply his artistic talents to the printing plate.


Provenanceex-collection Joseph Nègre; Alain Paviot, Paris;
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, verso, lower left corner: "200.452"
There is no evident signature.

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