Wooden Staircase at Chartres, 1852, Salted paper print from paper negative, Mount: 19 13/16 in. × 13 7/8 in. (50.3 × 35.2 cm), Photographs, Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq (French, Paris 1818–1882 Paris), Henri Le Secq was a learned and cultivated man, a painter and a passionate collector of old master prints and medieval ironwork. He counted among his close friends the peintre-graveur Charles Meryon and the photographers Charles Nègre and Gustave Le Gray (both colleagues from the studio of Paul Delaroche); from the latter he learned the process of paper-negative photography
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Wooden Staircase, Chartres, 1852, Salted paper print, paper negative, Mount, 19 13/16, 13 7/8, 50.3, 35.2 cm, Photographs, Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq, French, Paris, 1818–1882, Henri Le, Secq, learned, cultivated man, painter, passionate collector, old master, prints, medieval ironwork, counted, close friends, peintre-graveur Charles, Meryon, photographers, Nègre, Gustave, Gray, colleagues, studio, Paul Delaroche, latter, process, paper-negative photography
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