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Façade of the Seminaire, Place St. Sulpice, Paris
Façade of the Seminaire, Place St. Sulpice, Paris

Façade of the Seminaire, Place St. Sulpice, Paris

Artist Louis-Armand-Hippolyte Fizeau (French, 1819 - 1896)
Dateca. 1843
MediumPhoto-etching from daguerreotype plate
DimensionsImage: 2 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches (6.99 x 7.94 cm)
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 6 5/16 inches (11.91 × 16.03 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2006.44.9
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionA small, ghostly engraving of the façade of a multi-story building, with arched windows of three floors visible plus the attic and roofline.Exhibition History

Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label
As a French scientist, Louis Fizeau was celebrated for his studies of the speed of light and other problems in physics. His early photographic research involved creating techniques to reproduce the inherently one-of-a-kind daguerreotype image. This is a fine example of his process: a print in ink made from a daguerreotype that has been transformed into a printing plate by acid etching.
Provenance
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2006;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2006.
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