ID: 700000525 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000525	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Albert Thompson Gobert (photograph; Louis-Rémy Robert (French, 1810 or 1811-1882); 1849-1855; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1991.1044;)

Note: Louis Robert grew up on the premises of the Royal Porcelain Factory at Sèvres and assumed the leadership of its Painting Workshop in 1847. Inclined by training and temperament toward endeavors that brought painting and chemistry together, he was among the earliest French artists to take up paper photography as an amateur pursuit, in about 1850. Robert’s colleague Alfred Gobert, head of the Enameling Workshop at Sèvres, is shown here with his head slightly bowed and his eyes half closed (in part to help maintain his pose during a long exposure in bright sunlight), as if lost in thought. The shallow depth of field—only Gobert’s face is in focus—and the flecks of light and soft massing of shadows so characteristic of prints from paper negatives heighten the sense that this portrait is a privileged meditation by Robert on the interior world of his friend.

Titles:

Albert Thompson Gobert (preferred,C,U,D,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

photograph [300046300] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: 1849-1855

Creator Display:

Louis-Rémy Robert (French, 1810 or 1811-1882) [preferred,VP]

photographer Robert, Louis-Rémy (French photographer, painter, 1810/1811-1882) [500037102]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1991.1044

Credit Line: Purchase, Joyce and Robert Menschel, Mrs. Harrison D. Horblit and Paul F. Walter Gifts, and Rogers Fund, 1991

Display Materials: Salted paper print from paper negative

	salted paper prints [300127149]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

Dimensions: 22.6 x 16.8 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Alfred Thompson Gobert (French painter and ceramicist, 1822-1895) [500105336]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Provenance: Watelin family, France; [Lunn Ltd., New York and Paris]; [Charles Isaacs Photographs, Malvern, Pennsylvania]

Inscriptions: Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto, bottom left: "M Gobert"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Albert Thompson Gobert	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)