Chartres Cathedral

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Chartres Cathedral

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Henri Le Secq

French Photographer · 1818–1882

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Henri Le Secq, a painter and antiquarian, collected Old Master prints and medieval ironwork. As the son of a politician, Le Secq became an expert on his native Paris and the self-appointed guardian of its historic architectural treasures as the city faced urbanization. Unsurprisingly, his photographs of the city's architecture are the work for which he is best known. In 1851 he became a founder of

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Date
negative 1852; print 1870s
Medium
Photolithographs
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
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