Louis Robert Cuvier, "Chantier d’Asie (Amont)" Kil.73, 1866 print on albumin paper from a collodion glass negative 19.7 x 26.1 cm. Musée d’Orsay collection, purchase, 1991 © photo: Musée d’Orsay, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Alexis Brandt
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Construction of the Suez Canal, Photographs by Louis Cuvier
16/03/2025 - 14/09/2025
Musée d'Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
75007 Paris
www.musee-orsay.fr/
Carried out between 1859 and 1869, construction of the canal across the Suez isthmus to connect the Mediterranean to the Red Sea crystallised numerous challenges specific to the 19th century, technological, commercial, financial, diplomatic and geopolitical alike. This display will present a rare album of photographs taken by Louis Cuvier in 1866 and 1867, which form an essential reportage on that extreme worksite, one of the century’s most secret and closely monitored undertakings.
16/03/2025 - 14/09/2025
Musée d'Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
75007 Paris
www.musee-orsay.fr/
Carried out between 1859 and 1869, construction of the canal across the Suez isthmus to connect the Mediterranean to the Red Sea crystallised numerous challenges specific to the 19th century, technological, commercial, financial, diplomatic and geopolitical alike. This display will present a rare album of photographs taken by Louis Cuvier in 1866 and 1867, which form an essential reportage on that extreme worksite, one of the century’s most secret and closely monitored undertakings.