Still life, 1839-1840
Re-mounted full plate daguerreotype. On the back, handwritten indications in ink by Hippolyte Fizeau: "Daguerreotype with gold chloride fixation Mr Hubert - architect - 1840".
15,5 x 20,3 cm (view) - 31 x 36,5 cm (frame)
A research worksheet by François Lepage on this daguerreotype is attached.
Bibliography : "The French daguerreotype, a photographic object", Quentin Bajac (Direction), Exhibitions Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ed. Réunion Des Musées Nationaux, 2003, variant reproduced pl.38, p.157.
Sylvie Aubenas quotes in this work: "One can moreover reconstitute a group of these compositions, all related and of the same dimensions, made first by Daguerre himself and then, in the following months, by his assistant, Hubert, and by Fortier, Samuel Morse, and the Baron Armand Pierre Séguier." (p.159)
"Rather than a cabinet of curiosities, these compositions evoke the bric-a-brac of an artist's studio (...). It should be noted that this concern to demonstrate the fidelity of reproduction of the process is found in all inventors." (p.158)
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