Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013256Palace of the Nuns at Uxmal (detail from the façade of the snake)
Inscriptions
Imprinted in paper label adhered to recto, lower left: "Charnay, photogr. Pl. 41. Gide, éditeur, Paris./PALAIS DES NONNES, A UXMAL/Détail de la Façade de la Couleuvre"
Provenance
?-2021: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY June 7, 2021: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay (French, 1828–1915)
- Date
- c. 1860
- Medium
- albumen print from collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 27 x 39.8 cm (10 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.); Paper: 30.4 x 42.5 cm (11 15/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 2021.41
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