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The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris, 1859. Charles Nègre, a history painter by training, was a pioneering 19th-century French photographer. In 1859 he received government support to produce a series of fifty images of statuary in Paris's Tuileries Gardens. Although the project was never completed, Nègre did create a group of large-format glass negatives. This photograph represents one of a small number of unique prints from those negatives. The Tiber, a late 17th-century stone sculpture of the river god Tiber, is one of the garden's four water sculptures depicting water deities. Creator Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906). (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)