S. Pietro in Vaticano

Eugène Constant

1848–52 · Albumen print from glass negative · Photographs

Constant, who associated with the painter-photographers at the Caffè Greco, was the first in Rome to use the method of albumen on glass plate negatives devised by the Frenchman Niépce de Saint-Victor in 1847. This remarkable album contains thirty prints by Constant, each affixed to a page bearing the blind stamp of the bookseller Edouard Mauche (who sold his views).

Artist

Eugène Constant

Date

1848–52

Medium

Albumen print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005