La Photographie de la Momie
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Marius Michel
b. 1853
La Photographie de la Momie
Photographing the Mummy
ca. 1887
Albumen silver print
Image: 8 7/16 × 12 1/2 in. (21.5 × 31.8 cm)
Mount: 11 1/2 × 16 9/16 in. (29.2 × 42.1 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink, mount recto, BC: La Photographie de la Momie.
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on mount recto, BR: Repro. de tableau de
Inscribed on painting in image recto, BR: Marius Michel [signature]
Inscribed in black ink, on image and mount, recto, TR and R (x4): ____ très clair
Inscribed in pencil (museum hand) on recto, C: photograph of a painting by Marius \ Michel (born in Cette, France, a pupil \ of Carolus Durand)
Inscribed in pencil (museum hand) on recto, BC: Unidentified Anonymous box
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on mount recto, BR: Repro. de tableau de
Inscribed on painting in image recto, BR: Marius Michel [signature]
Inscribed in black ink, on image and mount, recto, TR and R (x4): ____ très clair
Inscribed in pencil (museum hand) on recto, C: photograph of a painting by Marius \ Michel (born in Cette, France, a pupil \ of Carolus Durand)
Inscribed in pencil (museum hand) on recto, BC: Unidentified Anonymous box
