Cart wheels

Artist Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq (French, 1818 - 1882)

Dateca. 1860

MediumPhotolithograph

DimensionsImage: 9 9/16 × 13 1/16 inches (24.29 × 33.18 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 22 1/2 inches (40.64 × 57.15 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2011.76.35

SignedOn image recto, central left, in negative: "h. LeSecq."

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn mount recto, lower left corner, in pencil: "No19"

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DescriptionImage of cart wheels stacked against deteriorating wall with large stones in front.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

With the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO by 2011;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2011.

Exhibition History

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

Gallery Label

Early inventors of photography experimented with techniques to make images more permanent. While chemically developed photographs often faded quickly, photolithography reproduced more durable images as ink-on-paper prints. Henri Le Secq drew upon his training as a painter when selecting and composing subjects. Rustic scenes such as this might have served as studies for painters or as artistic images in their own right.

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