Self-portrait at 21 Quai Bourbon
Artist
Charles Nègre
(French, 1820 - 1880)
Dateca. 1852
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 4 9/16 × 3 inches (11.59 × 7.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2008.18.18
Signednone
InscribedOn back mat recto, bottom, in pencil: "C.N. Autoportrait 1851.54? / B.143. / F.H. Exp. Ch. N. No 49."
MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "J11";
On mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "No 165"
On mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "J11"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a bearded man wearing a suit and standing on the sidewalk beside a tall building. He holds a top hat in one hand and a cane in the other. He turns to look at the viewer.Gallery LabelWith a cane in one hand and a top hat in the other, a dapper Charles Nègre poses for his camera. Educated as a painter, Nègre regularly exhibited his paintings throughout the 1840s and 1850s in the Paris Salon des Beaux-Arts exhibitions. He turned to photography in the mid-1840s. This self-portrait reveals the influence of his artistic training, evidenced by the way he renders himself in the foreground with sharper details while he allows the background to blur.
Family of the artist;
Collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris;
Sotheby's, Paris, La Photographie III: Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, L'Oeuvre de Charles Négre, 22 March 2002, lot 369;
Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, PA;
Purchased from Vintage Works by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2008.
Collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris;
Sotheby's, Paris, La Photographie III: Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, L'Oeuvre de Charles Négre, 22 March 2002, lot 369;
Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, PA;
Purchased from Vintage Works by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2008.
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