Keywords: Alphonse-Louis Poitevin, The Pantheon, 1842.jpg A group of visitors is frozen in time at the steps of the Pantheon a famous Neoclassical building in Paris Barely visible horses carriages and sightseers give an awe-inspiring sense of scale to the scene Louis-Alphonse Poitevin observed the enormous edifice “ 72 feet high and 276 feet wide “ from the roof of one of the buildings that faced it Begun in 1757 as the Church of Sainte-Geneviève the Pantheon is now a civic building housing the remains of some of France's most famous citizens 1842 Daguerreotype 1/2 plate Image 15 1 x 10 2 cm 5 15/16 x 4 in Mat 21 5 x 15 6 cm 8 7/16 x 6 1/8 in Object whole 27 9 x 21 9 cm 11 x 8 5/8 in Institution Getty Center object history exhibition history 62810 Markings Label Label on recto cover glass inscribed in ink Le Pantheon / Paris / 1842 AP credit line accession number 84 XT 265 12 PD-100 Alphonse Poitevin Facade of the Panthéon de Paris Historical images of Panthéon de Paris 1842 in Paris 1842 photographs Daguerreotypes of France Photographs in the Getty Museum |