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The de Regny Children and Their Nanny
Creator
Jean-Gabriel EynardSwiss Daguerreotypist · 1775–1863
All works by this person →Jean-Gabriel Eynard was a wealthy amateur photographer who made photographs chiefly for his own amusement. He learned the daguerreotype process in Paris in the early 1840s, not long after the invention of the process was announced in 1839. His financial independence afforded him the time and ability to practice photography, which in its infancy was an expensive pastime and difficult to master. Ass
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- about 1846
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- Swiss
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 258b2fa3-fb5c-4284-9bb2-c8c00d198362
From the Getty Museum record
The sweet intimacy of this family portrait--a friend's children and their nanny--is uncommon in Jean-Gabriel Eynard's work. He used careful planning to achieve the apparent informality suggested by the children's casual dress and slightly mischievous expressions. Judging from their leftward gaze, Eynard used something or someone out of camera range to attract their steady attention. With both children at the left, he artfully arranged the sober nanny's pose and skirt to fill the right side of the picture, balancing the three to form a sculptural group against the dark background.
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