Le Secq, Henri
French (1818-1882)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Chartres Cathedral, detail, jamb statues supporting columns
PORTFOLIO TITLE: --Chartres Cathedral--

1852
PUBLISHER: Commission des Monuments Historiques
photolithograph (encre grasse)
33.7 x 23.2 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 27460
79:2634:0002

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 117.//

INSCRIPTION: in negative: H. LeSecq, 1852. Chartres

NOTES: Cataloged by J. Buerger. "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