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The Pantheon, Paris
Creator
Alphonse-Louis PoitevinFrench Photographer · 1819–1882
All works by this person →Alphonse-Louis Poitevin, a chemical engineer, photographed landscapes near his family home, as well as his coworkers at the saltworks factory at Montmorot, France. He was known for his use of carbon printing and photolithography, both photomechanical processes. By the mid-1850s he was printing work by other photographers, including Nadar.
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- 1842
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 4db99af1-7790-41e6-97e6-84bf5aa19b5a
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A group of visitors is frozen in time at the steps of the Pantheon, a famous Neoclassical building in Paris. Barely visible horses, carriages, and sightseers give an awe-inspiring sense of scale to the scene. Louis-Alphonse Poitevin observed the enormous edifice--72 feet high and 276 feet wide--from the roof of one of the buildings that faced it. Begun in 1757 as the Church of Sainte-Geneviève, the Pantheon is now a civic building housing the remains of some of France's most famous citizens.
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