[Still Life with Statuary]
One of the most creative practitioners of the photographic medium during its initial years, Bayard trained his camera on a remarkable variety of subjects. Studies of plaster casts were among his earliest and most inventive photographs. The Frenchman drew from his collection of almost forty statuettes to orchestrate a mythological theater before the camera. Here, Bayard draws back a curtain to reveal a meticulously arranged scene of casts on staggered pedestals, with cupid at the apex poised to release his arrow.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Still Life with Statuary]
- Artist: Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801–1887)
- Date: Early 1850s
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: Image: 26.2 x 20.2 cm (10 5/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, William Talbott Hillman Foundation Gift, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.379
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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