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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Hippolyte Bayard — Still Life with Statuary and Drapery
Hippolyte Bayard

Still Life with Statuary and Drapery

1850

Bayard's careful arrangement demonstrates early photography's dialogue with classical painting traditions while exploring the medium's unique descriptive capabilities.

Medium
albumenized salt print from wet collodion negative

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