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Street Front of Palais Eynard, Geneva
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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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- April 18, 1851
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- Daguerreotype
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- Swiss
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- Photographs
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In conversation, the wily French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand dubbed this mansion a palace, and so it has since been called. The forecourt shown here was built on a substantial vault connected to the tops of the old ramparts of the city of Geneva, which now owns the house. Jean-Gabriel Eynard made this sharply angled study of the street front of his residence from the steps of a nearby building.
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