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Village Scene with Geese
Creator
André GirouxFrench Photographer · 1801–1879
All works by this person →André Giroux was the son of the man who made the camera equipment for the inventor of photography, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. With this auspicious birthright, Giroux moved easily from a successful career in painting to photography, maintaining a painterly eye and style in his photographic work. He specialized in landscapes, retouching his negatives to achieve more atmospheric effects in his pho
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- about 1855
- Medium
- Salted paper print from a paper negative
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 23b88e2c-eba0-412e-9457-4935cd28e2b4
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A cluster of houses with a stone well. Geese are swimming in a water hole at the front right.
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