[Still Life with Statuary]
Hippolyte Bayard French
Not on view
One of the most creative practitioners of the photographic medium during its initial years, Bayard trained his camera on a remarkable variety of subjects. Studies of plaster casts were among his earliest and most inventive photographs. The Frenchman drew from his collection of almost forty statuettes to orchestrate a mythological theater before the camera. Here, Bayard draws back a curtain to reveal a meticulously arranged scene of casts on staggered pedestals, with cupid at the apex poised to release his arrow.
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![[Still Life with Statuary], Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801–1887), Albumen silver print from glass negative](/Rodan/dist/svg/rolling-0.9s-30px.svg)
