Artist: Desire Charnay (1828 - 1915)
Nationality: French
Movement:
Media: Photography
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Biography:
After teaching in New Orleans, Claude-Joseph Desire Charnay began a nomadic lifestyle, traveling throughout France, and the United States initially. In 1857, he visited Mexico where he was inspired to photograph the pre-Columbian ruins. Charnay spent three months on an island in Madagascar writing and taking photographs for the a French imperialist expedition. He published a description of that trip with engraved illustrations that were derived from his photographs. He later returned to Mexico and then toured South America, Indonesia and Australia taking photographs of the native populations.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Women of Madagascar
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Desire Charnay, French, 1828-1915 Uxmal. Palais du Gouverneur 1858-61 Photograph, albumen print Image: 43.5 x
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Aristide Maillol - Desire 1906-1908 tinted plaster The Museum of Modern Art French
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Pat Steir, Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Claude Mellan, Allegory of intelligence, memory and desire
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Armand Charnay - Park of Sansac (Indre-et-Loire) 1885 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Edgar Degas, Musicians in the Orchestra (Portrait of Desire Dihau), circa 1870
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Pat Steir, Working proof 2 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 3 for panel C Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 1 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 17 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 16 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 18 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 3 for panel A of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 1 for Panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 12 for panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 13 for panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 14 for Panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 14 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 17 for panel A of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 2 for Panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 4 for panel A of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 4 for Panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 5 for Panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 5 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 4 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 1 for panel A of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 15 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 2 for panel A of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 3 for Panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Achille DesirÈ Lefevre, L"Empereur disait ce que c"est pourtant..., 18th - 19th century
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Pat Steir, Working proof 6 for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 6 for Panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Soft ground drawing for panel C of Abstraction, Belief, Desire ., 1981
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Pat Steir, Soft ground drawing for panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 11 for panel B of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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Pat Steir, Working proof 5 for panel A of Abstraction, Belief, Desire, 1981
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DÈsirÈ Francois LaugÈe, Portrait of Lord Lytton - Titlepage from Harper"s Weekly 1 February 1873, 1872
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Achille DesirÈ Lefevre, Princess Marie of Orleans and Child, 18th - 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Tree

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