Piscine de Siloé, Canal taillé dans le roc, Jérusalem
Ridiculed by fellow scholars for contending that many architectural fragments examined on an 1850 expedition to Jerusalem dated from the period of David and Solomon, Félicien Caignart de Saulcy was further accused of having provided fanciful and inaccurate site drawings to support his thesis. Salzmann, an artist and archaeologist, entered this scholarly fray in late 1853, setting off for Jerusalem to study and photograph the disputed monuments; after four months' work, he returned to Paris with nearly 175 negatives. The conclusive power of his photographs was self-evident, and de Saulcy declared himself vindicated by "a most able draftsman, in truth, and one whose good faith would be difficult to question . . . the sun."
Artwork Details
- Title: Piscine de Siloé, Canal taillé dans le roc, Jérusalem
- Artist: Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872)
- Printer: Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille (French, active 1851–55)
- Date: 1854
- Medium: Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative
- Dimensions: 22.6 x 31.7 cm (8 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997
- Object Number: 1997.382.65
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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