Accession Number
1994/2.7

Title
Maison Carrée at Nîmes

Artist(s)
Em. Pec. (Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère)

Artist Nationality
French (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1851

Medium & Support
salted paper print on paper

Dimensions
7 3/8 in x 10 3/16 in (18.73 cm x 25.88 cm);18 1/4 in x 22 1/4 in (46.36 cm x 56.52 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

Subject matter
The talented, but difficult to identify, photographer known as Em. Pec was particularly adept at isolating his subjects from their environment, reveling in the camera's capacity to accentuate fragmentary details. Aspects of this approach are visible even in this photograph, which captures the totality of the Roman temple known as the Masion Carrée or "square house," in Nîmes, France. The bleached-out sky and dark strip of foreground that frame the temple flatten and isolate the building from its environment, an effect that is heightened by Pec's compositional technique of aligning the shape of the structure with the margins of the photograph. 

Physical Description
Side view of the Maison Carrée, a Roman temple, in Nîmes, France.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
NÓmes
Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
architecture (object genre)
buildings
columns
fences
temples (institutions)
travel photography