Names: | | Dates: | 1810 - 1890 | Born: | France, Villiers-le-Bel | Active: | Switzerland | Lithographer and photographer who introduced the Daguerreotype to Berne (1840/1841) and took portraits who some of some significant Swiss personalities. There is also an excellent hand-colored postmortem Daguerreotype of a child in the Getty collection (84.XT.267.9).Preparing biographies
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