Chartres Cathedral, West Facade; Royal Portal, Central Bay
Bisson Frères (Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, French, 1826–1900))
1857, printed 1857
- Medium
- Albumen print, from the album "Reproductions photographiques des plus beaux types d’architecture et de sculpture"
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 45.5 × 36.5 cm (17 15/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Mount: 69.8 × 51.5 cm (27 1/2 × 20 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Photography Gallery Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
