Romesnil

1850–55

Not on view

In addition to the talented designers, artisans, and chemists who produced elaborate creations at the Royal Porcelain Factory, the naturalist painters Troyon, Daubigny, and Corot came to the village of Sèvres to sketch along the banks of the Seine and in the nearby forest of Saint-Cloud. Nurtured by these currents of technical and aesthetic innovation, Robert, who grew up in Sèvres and became head of the factory's painting workshop, took up photography as an amateur pursuit about 1850. In Sèvres, and in these pictures made during a visit to the glassworks at the château of Romesnil in Normandy, Robert trained his camera on the intimate, the vernacular, and the natural with a studied informality.

Artwork Details

Title: Romesnil
Artist: Louis-Rémy Robert (French, 1810–1882)
Date: 1850–55
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: 27 x 33.5 cm (10 5/8 x 13 3/16 in. )
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1996
Object Number: 1996.363.1
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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