the MET gathers 200 years of capturing clouds, from tinted mirrors to painted negatives

Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat (French, 1815–1858), Stanislas Ratel (French, 1824–1904), The Pavillon de Flore and the Tuileries Gardens, 1849, Daguerreotype, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce

and Robert Menschel, 2005