The Asylum at Vincennes

Inscriptions

written in pencil on verso: "38 [circled]" written on first mount in red ink: "Ch. Nègre phot"

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

Artist: Charles Nègre (French, 1820–1880)
Date: c. 1859
Medium: albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions: Diameter: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.); Second mount: 41.3 x 30.9 cm (16 1/4 x 12 3/16 in.); First mount: 24 x 19.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Accession no.: 1999.112

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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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