Portrait of Paul Chenavard, from the series "Histoire des Artistes Vivants"
c. 1852
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- 17.6 × 13.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-199316
Édouard Baldus, best known as an architectural photographer, took this portrait as an illustration for the entry on painter Paul Chenavard in Théophile Silvestre’s History of Living Artists French and Foreign: Studies after Nature. This ambitious and innovative project featured lengthy biographies of contemporary artists illustrated with photographic portraits. Some entries also had photographic reproductions of the artist’s paintings—possibly the first time that occurred in a publication. The books attest to the importance and interconnectedness of contemporary art and photography in the mid…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund, 2006.164
Registry history
- c. 1852 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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