Cathédrale de Reims, Statues de la Visitation

Paul Émile Placet (French, born in 1834)

Bisson Frères (French, active in 1841–1864)

Eugène Placet

1864–70

Medium/TechniquePlacet process heliograph, avant la lettre, from a Bisson Frères photograph

DimensionsImage: 19.2 x 11.6 cm (7 9/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 31.3 x 22.5 cm (12 5/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Charles W. Millard III

Accession number2019.452

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ClassificationsPhotographs

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ProvenanceBy 2008, Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Fine Photographs, New York; October 23, 2008, sold by Hans Kraus to Charles Warren Millard III (b. 1932 - d. 2017), Los Angeles, Washington, D. C., and Chapel Hill, NC; 2019, bequest of Charles Millard to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)