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New photography by Shane Butler captured with a digital camera-2010
Rear Surface of Human Iris
New photography by Shane Butler captured with a digital camera-2010
New photography by Shane Butler captured with a digital camera-2010

Rear Surface of Human Iris

Artist Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch (French, died 1871)
CultureFrench
Date1853-1857
MediumSalted paper print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 8 1/2 × 3 13/16 in. (21.6 × 9.7 cm)
Overall, Support: 12 1/4 × 10 9/16 in. (31.1 × 26.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 17 × 13 15/16 in. (43.2 × 35.4 cm)
InscribedIdentified in Bertsch's index and captioned in pencil on the mount. Numbered "45" in red pencil on mount.
Credit LineGift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York
Object number2000.26
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a salt print photograph mounted on heavy paper.

ProvenanceHippolyte Fizeau; Pierre Lambert; Marie Thérèse and André Jammes; Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 2000.