Family and Friends at Fleur d'eau

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Family and Friends at Fleur d'eau

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Jean-Gabriel Eynard

Swiss Daguerreotypist · 1775–1863

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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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Date
about 1850
Medium
Daguerreotype
Culture
Swiss
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
10c93f2f-31c3-4fdb-a56a-664f956c894c

An unusual unanimity exists among the sitters in this scene, perhaps due to Jean-Gabriel Eynard's request for his friends and relations to direct their eyes to their right. The result is an appealing sort of expectancy, as though some person, carriage, or circus troupe is about to make an entrance from that direction. Eynard himself sits in the center with his top hat on his lap, a lively participant in the tableau.

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