Eugène Casimir Volmerange-Oulif (1804-1862) Lot n° 10

The Twins / Le gemelle, Metz, circa 1856 Collodion on glass dry plate negative, 13x10 cm Oulif, an artist from Metz, one of the first photographers to practice daguerreotypy in provincial France, as early as 1839, invented and developed a dry plate process in the mid 1850s - without licensing his invention. Provenance: collection Gimmon