The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Photographie Lunaire: Copernic-Képler-Aristarique
1896
(French, 1833–1907)
(French, 1855–1928)
Sheet: 57 x 47.7 cm (22 7/16 x 18 3/4 in.); Framed: 88.6 x 77.3 x 2.6 cm (34 7/8 x 30 7/16 x 1 in.); Matted: 86.4 x 76.2 cm (34 x 30 in.)
Gift of Amy and Neil Viny 2011.172
Location: not on view
Description
This plate is from a deluxe 12-volume atlas of the moon created by astronomers Maurice Loewy and Pierre Henri Puiseaux. The atlas remained the most accurate reference of the moon’s surface until the age of space travel. The duo captured thousands of images at the Paris Observatory through a telescope that Loewy invented. It was equipped with a mechanism that tracked the moon’s movements during the exposures. Given weather conditions, they were only able to photograph 50 to 60 nights per year; the project thus took 15 years to complete and contained nearly 100 large-scale photogravures.- Frankel Gallery, San Francisco; Neil Viny; Cleveland Museum of Art
- Levy, Benjamin. “Photographs in Ink: The wonder of photomechanical processes.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 62, no. 3 (September 2022): 12-15. Reproduced: P. 15; Mentioned: P. 14.
- Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
- {{cite web|title=Photographie Lunaire: Copernic-Képler-Aristarique|url=false|author=Maurice Loewy, Pierre Henri Puiseaux|year=1896|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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