Porta del Popolo

Eugène Constant French, active Italy
1848–52
Not on view
Constant, who associated with the painter-photographers at the Caffè Greco, was the first in Rome to use the method of albumen on glass plate negatives devised by the Frenchman Niépce de Saint-Victor in 1847. This remarkable album contains thirty prints by Constant, each affixed to a page bearing the blind stamp of the bookseller Edouard Mauche (who sold his views).

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Object Information
  • Title: Porta del Popolo
  • Artist: Eugène Constant (French, active Italy, 1848–55)
  • Date: 1848–52
  • Medium: Albumen print from glass negative
  • Dimensions: Image: 8 11/16 × 11 5/16 in. (22 × 28.7 cm)
    Sheet: 12 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (30.8 × 47 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.100.799 (1)
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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