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Émile Rat
Jules-Cesar Robuchon
1880
Dujardin process heliogravure
7 x 9.5 ins
Archive Farms
LL/64962
Rat was a photographer from Poitiers. Robuchon arrived in Poitiers during the last decades of the 19th century, where he opened his own studio on the rue du Moulin-à-Vent. Also a skilled portraitist and sculptor, it is Robuchon's photographic work that has given him a place in history. He took thousands of stereotypes of the three regions of Poitou (Vienne, Vendee, Deux-Sèvres) which were reproduced as postcards but also as a twelve-volume publication, "Landscapes and Monuments of Poitou," which appears to have been published for the first time in 1886.
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