The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Louksor, Petit Bras du Nil

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Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

The symposium "Truth, Lies, and Photographs" was presented in conjunction with the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop, on view October 11, 2012, through January 27, 2013. In this talk, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Louksor, Petit Bras du Nil - Barque de Voyageurs

Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892)

Date:: 1851–52
Medium:: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:: Image: 24.2 x 30.7 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/16 in.) Mount: 40.5 x 52.4 cm (15 15/16 x 20 5/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.695

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Teynard's monogram stamp, recto, BL: [TF combined in oval]; printed text on mount, recto TC: "ÉGYPTE"; recto BL: Imp. Phot. de H de Fonteny et Cie. f. à Paris en 1851, r. St. Nicolas d'Antin, 72."; recto BC: "Félix Teynard."; recto BR: "Publié par Goupil et Cie. éditeurs. Paris, Londres, Berlin, New - York"; recto BC: "LOUKSOR. // PETIT BRAS DU NIL - BARQUE DE VOYAGEURS. // Pl. 28."
Provenance

[Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, February 12, 1982
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