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We celebrated last year, in 2020, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Nègre. That same year my father Joseph Nègre would […]…

Charles Nègre was born in Grasse in 1820 into a prosperous family of confectioners. A student of painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in […]…

What was his century in the evolution of Western civilization? The European Enlightenment died out in a general political and structural cacophony of which […]…

Charles Nègre left Paris for Provence and a journey of nearly six months. In the summer of 1852, he was 32 years old and […]…

Photograph is fragile “like the wings of a butterfly”. This remark of Arago is still very relevant in the 1850s, when it is noted […]…

For 12 years, from 1850 to 1861, Charles Nègre lived at 21 quai Bourbon in Paris. At the time, Île Saint-Louis was not today’s […]…

The name of this man endures in time and in principle for a few centuries through his works which carry his generation beyond his […]…

Photographer and environmentalist David Gulden‘s connection to the land and wildlife of Kenya began when he was 15 and traveled with his father on […]…