Charles Nègre
- Introduction
- Charles Nègre (French: [nɛɡʁ]; 9 May 1820 – 16 January 1880) was a pioneering photographer, born in Grasse, France. He studied under the painters Paul Delaroche, Ingres and Drolling before establishing his own studio at 21 Quai Bourbon on the Île Saint-Louis, Paris. Delaroche encouraged the use of photography as research for painting; Nègre started with the daguerreotype process before moving on to calotypes. His "Chimney-Sweeps Walking", an albumen print taken on the Quai Bourbon in 1851, may have been a staged study for a painting, but is nevertheless considered important to photographic history for its being an early instance of an interest in capturing movement and freezing it forever in one moment.Having been passed over for the Missions Héliographiques which commissioned many of his peers, Nègre independently embarked on his own remarkably extensive study of the Midi region. The interesting shapes in his 1852 photograph of buildings in Grasse have caused it to be seen as a precursor to art photography. In 1859, he was commissioned by Empress Eugénie to photograph the newly established Imperial Asylum in the Bois de Vincennes, a hospital for disabled workingmen.He used both albumen and salt print, and was known also as a skilled printer of photographs, using a gravure method of his own development. A plan commissioned by Napoleon III to print photographs of sculpture never came to fruition, and in 1861 Nègre retired to Nice, where he made views and portraits for holiday makers. He died in Grasse in 1880.
- Wikidata
- Q1065673
- Introduction
- Born 9 May 1820; died 16 January 1880.
- Nationality
- French
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Engraver, Lithographer, Painter, Photographer
- Names
- Charles Nègre, Charles Negre
- Ulan
- 500015868
Exhibitions
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502: Early Photography and Film
Ongoing
MoMA
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The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
Aug 1–Nov 1, 2010
MoMA
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Photography Collection: Rotation 6
Aug 7, 2009–Mar 22, 2010
MoMA
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From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
Nov 15, 1984–Mar 3, 1985
MoMA
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
May 6–Jul 5, 1981
MoMA
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Charles Nègre has
9 exhibitionsonline.
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Charles Nègre Leda 1850
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Charles Nègre Man with High Hat 1851
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Charles Nègre The Little Ragpicker 1851
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Charles Nègre The Courtyard of 21 Quai Bourbon, Paris 1851
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Charles Nègre Three Friends of Charles Nègre 1851
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Charles Nègre The Chimney Sweeps 1852
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Charles Nègre Arles, Church of Saint-Trophime, Left Side of the Portal 1852
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Charles Nègre Rachel 1853
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Charles Nègre The Lumberjack 1853
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Charles Nègre Portal of Saint Triomphe, Arles Cathedral 1854
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Charles Nègre Place du Châtelet 1854
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Charles Nègre Group of Three Bag Pipers Standing on the Corner of 21 Quai Bourbon 1854
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Charles Nègre Two Women of Arles at the Cloister of Saint Triomphe, Cathedral of Arles 1854
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Charles Nègre The Mason Crouching 1854
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Charles Nègre Horloge Pavilion, Louvre 1855
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Charles Nègre Standing Bag Piper and Seated Italiam Peasant Woman, at the Corner of 21 Quai Bourbon 1855
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Charles Nègre Lemon Tree, Grasse c. 1852
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Charles Nègre The Coconut Merchant c. 1852
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Charles Nègre South Porch, Cathedral of Chartres 1856 or 1857
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Charles Nègre Jamb Figures of Central Door of Royal Portal, Chartres Cathedral 1857
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Charles Nègre Portrait of Théophile Gautier, after Nadar 1857
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Charles Nègre Portrait of Jules Janin, after Nadar 1857
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Charles Nègre Portrait of Prince Adam George Czartorisky, after Nadar 1857
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Charles Nègre Spartacus, Tuileries Gardens, Paris 1859
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Charles Nègre Imperial Asylum, Vincennes: The Laundry 1858-59
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Charles Nègre Reading Room, Imperial Asylum, Vincennes 1858-59
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Charles Nègre Carriage Horse Fallen on the Street, Rubberneckers, Quai Bourbon, Paris 1855-60
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Charles Nègre Untitled 1855-60
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Charles Nègre Plant Study 1860s ?
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