Charles Nègre

Charles Nègre ( born May 9, 1820 Grasse, † January 16, 1880 ) was a French painter and photographic pioneer.

Nègre was a pupil of the painter Paul Delaroche, Ingres and Drolling. Delaroche advised him to deal with the photography as an aid to painting. As a photographer, his early, well -composed snapshots of street life are remarkable, the genre recordings he sat in the chimney sweep series with recordings over the rooftops of the city continued.

Nègre opened a studio on the Ile Saint -Louis in Paris. In 1854 and 1855 he made on behalf of the French Government to photographs of the Cathedral of Chartres, who served the archaeological building documentation. He also undertook several study trips before 1861 in Nice retired and only portrait photos and views anfertigte. Nègre died in 1880 in his native Grasse.