File:Louis de Clercq - Kaalat el Athlit, Syria, View from the Seaside - 1996.254 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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[edit]Voyage en Orient, vol 2, "Chateau du temps des Croisades en Syrie", Pl. 3: Kaalat el Athlit, Syria, View from the Seaside
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Louis de Clercq |
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Voyage en Orient, vol 2, "Chateau du temps des Croisades en Syrie", Pl. 3: Kaalat el Athlit, Syria, View from the Seaside |
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| Object type | photograph | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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After fulfilling his obligation to a government-sponsored expedition to the crusader castles of Syria and Asia Minor, Louis de Clercq continued his photographic exploration of the Holy Land, moved on to Egypt, and returned to France through Spain. From the probably several hundred paper negatives he took during his extensive travels, de Clercq published a selection of 222 albumen prints, divided into 6 volumes, which were frequently bound as 5 albums, titled Voyage in Orient(1859–60). This carefully posed panorama of the Syrian coastline at Kaalat el Athlit, bathed in warm light and luminous shadows, records the sweep of space and rugged beauty of the site, emphasizing its geographical and topographical features. Interestingly, de Clercq’s use of the panoramas represents an impressive technical achievement, since the difficulties in mid 19th-century photography only increased when the negatives had to form a continuous image. His panoramas also reveal the period’s zeal to convey as much information as possible about the experience of a place. |
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| Date | 1859 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Albumen print from calotype negatives | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Image: 20.7 x 15.2 cm (8 1/8 x 6 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1996.254 |
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| Place of creation | France, 19th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.254 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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