Spartan Soldier. Artist: Charles Nègre (French, 1820-1880). Dimensions: Image: 35.3 x 43.5 cm (13 7/8 x 17 1/8 in.). Date: 1859.Astonished on first seeing daguerreotypes (about 1844) and dreaming of the medium's potential, Charles Nègre immediately resolved to devote himself to the new art, experimenting first with daguerreotypy and, after 1847, with paper photography. Like Le Secq and Le Gray, Nègre had studied painting with Paul Delaroche, and his experience at the easel was the foundation for his photographic work of the early 1850s--genre scenes of Parisian street musicians, chimney sweeps, and vendors, as well as architectural views.Despite his acknowledged talent Nègre failed time and again either to win government support for or to bring to fruition the grand projects he envisioned for the new medium. Bypassed by the Commission des Monuments Historiques in the assignment of "missions héliographiques," Nègre produced some two hundred negatives for a self-initiated project entitle

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Spartan Soldier. Artist: Charles Nègre (French, 1820-1880). Dimensions: Image: 35.3 x 43.5 cm (13 7/8 x 17 1/8 in.). Date: 1859.Astonished on first seeing daguerreotypes (about 1844) and dreaming of the medium's potential, Charles Nègre immediately resolved to devote himself to the new art, experimenting first with daguerreotypy and, after 1847, with paper photography. Like Le Secq and Le Gray, Nègre had studied painting with Paul Delaroche, and his experience at the easel was the foundation for his photographic work of the early 1850s--genre scenes of Parisian street musicians, chimney sweeps, and vendors, as well as architectural views.Despite his acknowledged talent Nègre failed time and again either to win government support for or to bring to fruition the grand projects he envisioned for the new medium. Bypassed by the Commission des Monuments Historiques in the assignment of "missions héliographiques," Nègre produced some two hundred negatives for a self-initiated project entitle

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