Photography, French -- 19th century;Ocean;Ships;Seascapes
Notes: Le Gray's Brig on the Water created a sensation when it was first shown in London and Paris at the exhibitions of the Photographic Society and the Société de Photographie in 1856 and 1857. In this image Le Gray appears to have conquered...
Photography, French -- 19th century;Paris (France);Jardin des Tuileries (Paris, France);Sculpure;Théodon, Jean-Baptiste, 1646-1713. Arria et Paetus;Lepautre, Pierre, ca. 1660-1744. Arria et Paetus
Remarks: This picture was part of a commission Nègre received in 1859 to photograph the sculptures in the Tuileries Garden. Nègre made the photographs in June, 1859. The photographs were to be made into heliogravures and published in a monograph...
Photography, French -- 19th century;Bourgeois de Mercey, Frédéric, 1803-1860 -- Portraits;Château de la Faloise (La Faloise, France);Landscapes;Châteaux;Portraits, Group;Country houses
Notes: Édouard Baldus was the most important French architectural photographer of the 1850s. On one summer day in 1857, he created a remarkable series of views of the Château de la Faloise in which his subject was not primarily the country house,...
Remarks: This rare vintage print is typical of Nadar's best work of the 1850s, his portraits of the luminaries of the Parisian artistic and literary circles. Nadar, along with LeGray, Baldus, and Nègre, was one of the best-known French...
Remarks: Exiled to the island of Jersey, Hugo took up photography, producing group portraits of family members, acquaintances, servants, and visitors...
Photography, French -- 19th century;Anatomy;Physiognomy;Duchenne, G.-B. (Guillaume-Benjamin), 1806-1875. Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de le expression des passions
Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne with Adrien Tournachon
In: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de le expression des passions, par le docteur G.-B. Duchenne (de Boulogne) Avec un atlas composé de...
