Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.
![[Family Group], Désiré Charnay, 1863](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP356050.jpg)
[Family Group]
1863 · Museu Metropolitano de Arte

Resten van het Gouverneurspaleis in Uxmal, Mexico
1857 · Museu Estatal de Amesterdão

Resten van het Gouverneurspaleis in Uxmal, Mexico (linkerdeel)
1857 · Museu Estatal de Amesterdão

Resten van het Gouverneurspaleis in Uxmal, Mexico (rechterdeel)
1857 · Museu Estatal de Amesterdão

Palais des Nonnes, Chichen-Itza: Façade principale (Palace of the Nuns, Chichen-Itza: Main Facade)
1859–1861 · Não exposta · Galeria Nacional de Arte

Femme Malgache et Ses Enfants (Madagascan Woman and Her Children) (Plate 3)
1863 · Não exposta · Galeria Nacional de Arte

Trois Femmes Malgaches (Plate 30)
1863 · Não exposta · Galeria Nacional de Arte

Les Femmes Malgaches (Plate 28)
1863 · Não exposta · Galeria Nacional de Arte

Exterieur van een Hollands huis te Batavia
1878 · Museu Estatal de Amesterdão
![[Portrait of Two Birdsellers], Désiré Charnay, about 1858](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/40444af6-12bb-457f-b5ae-c68b5bdd7bca/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of Two Birdsellers]
about 1858 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty

Palais Du Cirque à Chichen-Itza, Intérieur d'une salle
1859 · Não exposta · Art Institute of Chicago

Palace of the Nuns at Uxmal (detail from the façade of the snake)
c. 1860 · Não exposta · Museu de Arte de Cleveland

Palace of the Circus at Chicen-Itza (bas relief of tigers)
c. 1860 · Não exposta · Museu de Arte de Cleveland

Uxmal, Indian Bas Relief, Nun's Palace (Uxmal, Bas Relief de l'Indien, Palais des Nonnes), plate 44 from the album "Cités et Ruines Américaines, Gide Paris" (1863)
1860 · Não exposta · Art Institute of Chicago

The Nunnery, Uxmal
1860 · Não exposta · Museu de Arte de Cleveland

Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal, detail de la facade de la couleuvre
1860–1862 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty

Grand Palacio, Mitla
about 1860 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty

Chichén-Itzá: Right Wing of the Nun's Palace
1860 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty
![[Façade, Governor's Palace, Uxmal], Désiré Charnay, 1860](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8084137b-1fb3-41f9-8346-3e694e3161d6/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg)
[Façade, Governor's Palace, Uxmal]
1860 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty

Palais du Cirque, a Chichen-Itza. Bas-relief des tigres
about 1860 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty

Pyramide Artificielle, a Mitla, Anciennement surmontee d'un temple
1862–1863 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty
![[Group of Betsimisaraka women], Désiré Charnay, 1863](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/fa6b4baa-d997-468e-9ad1-b2a732728cf0/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg)
[Group of Betsimisaraka women]
1863 · Não exposta · Museu J. Paul Getty
