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[Large Figures on the North Porch, Chartres Cathedral]

Henri Le Secq · 1852

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Artist

Henri Le Secq
French, Paris 1818–1882 Paris

Date

1852

Type

Photograph

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Size

32.8 x 22.1 cm (12 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Period

19th century

Main colour

Brown · lightness 55, colourfulness 22

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation and Harriette and Noel Levine Gifts, Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. Bequest, and Rogers Fund, 1990. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules