The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris (1859): Art, History and Details

The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris (1859) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles Nègre (French, 1820–1880).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In 1859, Charles Nègre received government support to produce 50 photographs of their statuary. He never completed the project and made only a small number of unique prints, of which this is one. This stone sculpture, created in the late 1700s, depicts a human personification of the god of the Tiber River. The waterway runs through Rome, which is symbolized by the she-wolf and twins. This is one of the garden’s four sculptures depicting water deities.

Object facts

• Title: The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris
• Date: 1859
• Creator attribution: Charles Nègre (French, 1820–1880)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 36.5 x 44.6 cm (14 3/8 x 17 9/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1994.201

A detail from the museum

After the 1789 French Revolution, the gardens of the Tuileries palace became a public park.

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.