Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Visual Relics (1874-1886)

Étienne Carjat
Sarah Bernhardt in Voltaire's Zaїre
1874
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Étienne Carjat
Portrait of Alphonse Daudet
ca. 1876
woodburytype print
Art Institute of Chicago

Pierre Edmonds
Fontaine du Luxembourg, Paris
ca. 1875
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Antonio Beato
First Cataract of the Nile
ca. 1875
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Charles Bierstadt
Horseshoe Falls from the Canadian Side
ca. 1875
albumen prints (stereocard)
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Henri Béchard
Thebes - Temple of the Ramesseum
Interior of Hypostyle Hall

1875
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Félix Bonfils
Femme Voilée
ca. 1875
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Félix Bonfils
Parthenon Colonnade
ca. 1875
albumen print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Samuel Bourne
Untitled
ca. 1877
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

Felice Beato
Dacoits captured in the Ye-U Jungle, Shwebo Province, Burma
ca. 1880
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Schroeder & Cie. (Lausanne)
Karnak
ca. 1880
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Thomas Eakins
Male Figure in Classical Costume
1883
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Wilhelm von Gloeden
Wrestlers
ca. 1885
modern gelatin silver print from glass plate negative
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Wilhelm von Gloeden
Youths among Rocks
ca. 1885
modern gelatin silver print from glass plate negative
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Pascal Sébah
Interior, Abu Simbel Temple, Egypt
before 1886
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Spencer and Company (Santiago, Chile)
Composite Portrait of 59 Women
ca. 1875
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

"This composite photograph assembles fifty-nine women, all wearing the Chilean manto, a veil similar to the Spanish mantilla, traditionally worn on Sundays. As was common practice at the time, the publisher of this image took negatives from separate carte-de-visite portrait sessions and combined the images of the women into one picture. From various negatives of individuals that held value only for those depicted and those who knew them, the photographer produced an image with typological interest that could appeal to a wide array of customers. The women appear to belong together based on their visual similarities, but one wonders what they might have thought of this artificial conglomeration." 

– curator's notes from Princeton University Art Museum