Second Palace at Mitla, Mexico.

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Artist: Désiré Charnay (French, 1828–1915)
Date: February 1860
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 13 1/8 × 16 7/8 in. (33.3 × 42.9 cm) Mount: 21 3/16 in. × 25 in. (53.8 × 63.5 cm)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, 2015
Accession no.: 2015.236

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

Palais Du Cirque à Chichen-Itza, Intérieur d'une salle
Désiré Charnay
1859 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00007942
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
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008821
The Nunnery, Uxmal
Désiré Charnay
1860 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00013219
Palace of the Nuns at Uxmal (detail from the façade of the snake)
Désiré Charnay
c. 1860 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00013256

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.