The Pope's Palace, Avignon
1946 · Albumen print
Image: 33.4 × 24 cm (13 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 28 cm (14 × 11 1/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Charles Nègre
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7
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95
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129
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From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984–1985
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Portrait Photographs
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Charles Nègre was a French photographer and painter active in the mid-19th century. He worked primarily in calotype and salt print processes, documenting architectural monuments, street scenes, and labor across France and the Mediterranean. His photographs demonstrate a systematic attention to light and composition that elevated documentary practice toward formal refinement. Nègre's body of work bridges the technical innovations of early photography with a painter's sensibility for tonal gradation and spatial arrangement.
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