The Portal of Saint Ursinus at Bourges, rue du Vieux Poirier
Bisson Frères (Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, French, 1826–1900))
1854
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 42.6 × 35.3 cm (16 13/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media
- Credit line
- The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In the early years of photography, landscape studies, architectural views, and studio portraiture were the main focus of the new medium. A photograph such as The Portal of Saint Ursinus at Bourges of 1863 by the Bisson Frères (Bisson Brothers) reveals a widespread interest on the part of the French at that time in their nation's past and in the preservation of historical monuments. Using large-format cameras and glass-plate negatives, the Bissons captured their architectural subjects with exquisite sharpness of detail and purity of light.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
