Palais Du Cirque à Chichen-Itza, Intérieur d'une salle

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Désiré Charnay / French, 1828–1915
Date: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 26 × 40.2 cm (10 1/4 × 15 7/8 in.); Mount: 54.1 × 70.1 cm (21 5/16 × 27 5/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: albumen silver print
Style: 19th century
Place: France
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
Accession no.: 2000.24

Uxmal, Indian Bas Relief, Nun's Palace (Uxmal, Bas Relief de l'Indien, Palais des Nonnes), plate 44 from the album "Cités et Ruines Américaines, Gide Paris" (1863)
Désiré Charnay
1860 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00008821
The Nunnery, Uxmal
Désiré Charnay
1860 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013219
Palace of the Nuns at Uxmal (detail from the façade of the snake)
Désiré Charnay
c. 1860 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013256
Palace of the Circus at Chicen-Itza (bas relief of tigers)
Désiré Charnay
c. 1860 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013305