Original and clear 1860's French albumen print - Carte de Visite (visiting card or CDV) of French playwright and Saint Simonianism ideologist, Charles Duveyrier, older years just before he died in 1866 aged 63. Here he is posed, smiling, a kind, pleasant looking middle aged French gentleman, wearing a morning suit amd waistcoat, and holding a book. From the studio of (Hippolyte) Bayard & Bertell, Rue de la Madeleine, Paris , France. Hippolyte Bayard was one of the earliest experimenters in photography, a pioneering photographer - active at this studio from 1861-1866.
Hippolyte Bayard was one of the earliest experimenters in photography, though few will recognize his name today. While working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he devoted much of his free time to inventing processes that captured and fixed images from nature on paper using a basic camera, chemicals, and light. The announcement of the inventions of his fellow countryman Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s daguerreotype on January 7, 1839, and Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot’s photogenic drawing soon after greatly diminished opportunities for recognition of Bayard’s contributions. Though he exhibited examples of his work in what has been recognized as the first public exhibition of photography in July 1839 and presented his direct positive process at the Academy of Fine Arts in November of 1839, where it was lauded as an important tool for artists, he remained in the shadows of Daguerre and Talbot. In reality, of the three inventors, it was Bayard who actively continued to photograph the longest. He was a founding member in the 1850s of the Société héliographique and its successor, the Société française de photographie. He was one of only five photographers selected to be part of the Missions héliographiques in 1851, charged with the task of documenting France’s historic architecture for the Commission des Monuments historiques. He exhibited regularly in the universal expositions and, in the 1860s after his retirement from the Ministry of Finance, opened a photographic portrait studio in Paris with Charles Albert d'Arnoux, known as Bertall (1820-1882). During his lifetime, Bayard was described as the “Grandfather of Photography” by several commentators. In the late 1860s he left Paris and moved to Nemours near his lifelong friend, the actor & painter Edmond Geffroy. Bayard died there in 1887. Source: Getty Museum
Size: 4336px × 7001px
Location: Paris, France, Europe
Photo credit: © ThislifeThen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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