Charles Nouette (1869 – 2 May 1910)[1] was a French photographer and explorer who was a member of Paul Pelliot's archaeological expedition to Eastern ("Chinese") Turkestan, modern Xinjiang in 1906–1908.
At the time there was great scientific rivalry between the French, British, Germans, Russians and Japanese in the area. Pelliot, accompanied by Nouette as official photographer[2] and Louis Vaillant as expedition doctor, set out from St Petersburg on 17 June 1906 and proceeded via Bokhara, Kashgar, Ürümqi and Turfan, before eventually reaching Beijing in the summer of 1909.
From June to September 1907 the expedition was in Kucha, and Charles Nouette visited and photographed the Kizil Caves in early September.[3][4][5] In March 1908 the expedition visited Dunhuang. The numerous cave manuscripts that were purchased and subsequently studied by Pelliot are now kept in the National Library of France, the Bibliothèque nationale.
Nouette's photographs of the exhibition are preserved in the collection of the Musée Guimet, the French National Museum of Asiatic Art, in Paris.[6]
References
edit- ^ Pelliot, Paul (1910). "Charles Nouette". T'oung Pao. 11 (2): 293. doi:10.1163/156853210X00135. ISSN 0082-5433. JSTOR 4526146.
- ^ "Autres ouvrages". Guimet.fr. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ^ Pelliot, Paul Emile (1909). Trois Ans dans la haute Asie : vol.1 / Page 13 (Color Image). pp. 7–8.
- ^ "Mission Paul Pelliot 1906-1908. Entre le 1/9/1907 et le 3/9/1907" in "Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais - Search Result". www.photo.rmn.fr.
- ^ Pelliot, Paul. Trois Ans dans la haute Asie. p. 10.
- ^ "Réunion des musées nationaux". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
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