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Le Secq, Henri
French (1818-1882)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Chartres Cathedral, detail
PORTFOLIO TITLE: --Chartres Cathedral--

ca. 1852
PUBLISHER: Commission des Monuments Historiques
photolithograph (encre grasse)
32.7 x 22.5 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 27489
79:2634:0005

This image was part of GEH's 1999 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: ""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984.//

NOTES: Cataloged 12/83, DZ. "The Eastman House recently (1980) acquired a rare published portfolio of twenty-five photomechanically produced pictures of Chartres (in Thiel's 'encre grasse' process) made from Le Secq's paper negatives of 1852 and undoubtedly printed under his direction." [Janet Buerger, "Le Secq's 'Monuments' and Chartres Cathedral Portfolio," Image, June 1980, p. 1-2] Luis Nadeau's "Encyclopedia of Printing, Photographic, and Photomechanical Processes" defines Thiel's encre grass (greasy ink) process as a form of photolithography.

SUBJECT: architecture, detail / Chartres Cathedral

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