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Heron in Flight
Also titled Vliegende reiger
Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)
1887
- Medium
- baryta paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 170 mm x width 362 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of SuitSupply
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Marey’s photography lies at the intersection of science, technology, and photography. In 1890, he published a hefty study of birds in full flight: Le Vol des Oiseaux. The book is full of his research experiments, anatomical drawings of birds, mathematical formulas, and tables.
