Fortunate Joseph Petiot-Groffier
(1788-1855)... Lot 4
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Fortunate Joseph Petiot-Groffier
(1788-1855)
Hospital of Chalon-sur-Saône, 1853.
Proof on salted paper, from a paper negative, hinged.
24 x 34 cm Petiot-Groffier
, whose laboratory was discovered intact in 2007, was well known in Chalon for his art of taking photographs
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In 1853, having learned that it had been decided to demolish the great nave of the hospital in Chalon, the very young Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie asked Petiot-Groffier to take general views of the building.
Fortunate Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855)
Chalon-sur-Saône hospital, 1853
.
Salt print, from paper negative.
24 x 34 cm
Petiot-Groffier, whose laboratory was discovered preserved in 2007, was well known in Chalon for his art of taking photographs
.
In 1853, having learned that it had been decided to demolish the great nave of the hospital in Chalon, the fledgling Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie asked Petiot-Groffier to take general views of the building.
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