Chartres Cathedral, West Facade; Royal Portal, Central Bay

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Chartres Cathedral, West Facade; Royal Portal, Central Bay

Bisson Frères (Louis-Auguste Bisson, French, 1814–1876 andLinkedCulture matchlcp-a926d5da1958

Date
1857, printed 1857
Medium
Albumen print, from the album "Reproductions photographiques des plus beaux types d’architecture et de sculpture"
Culture
France
Department
Photography and Media
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
123632

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The Bisson brothers learned photography from one of its inventors, Louis Daguerre, and ran a well-regarded portrait studio in Paris before specializing in architectural views in the 1850s. Their most ambitious project was an extensive series of buildings and monuments capitalizing on renewed popular interest in the past. In the early years of his tenure, as he focused on building up a collection of historical masters, Hugh Edwards acquired 21 plates from this album, including this detail of Chartres Cathedral’s columnar figures.

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Photography Gallery Fund

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AAT300046300

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