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).
Stereographs project Business locations Bern, Switzerland Views rare, area scy., but #s seen to 138. T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the World (Non-USA), (National Stereoscopic Association) |
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
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