House and Garden in the Frankish Quarter, Cairo
Gustave Flaubert posed only once for Du Camp, wearing a loose-fitting jalabiya and what he called a "screaming red" fez outside the garden of the Hotel du Nil, where the two friends lodged for most of their two-month stay in Cairo. Flaubert, still an aspiring novelist at the time, accompanied Du Camp on his Mediterranean trip. After their return to Paris, both men wrote narrative accounts of their travels together. Flaubert’s chronicle of the friends’ journey (published after his death) differed substantially from Du Camp’s version, in which Flaubert is not even mentioned.
Artwork Details
- Title: House and Garden in the Frankish Quarter, Cairo
- Artist: Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894)
- Date: January 9, 1850
- Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
- Dimensions: Mount: 12 5/16 × 18 11/16 in. (31.2 × 47.5 cm)
Image: 8 3/8 × 5 7/8 in. (21.2 × 14.9 cm)
Frame: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.376.4
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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