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Servants at Fleur d'eau
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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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- 1846
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- Daguerreotype
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Jean-Gabriel Eynard's lavish lifestyle required a large number of servants. Here, in front of a stable building at Fleur d'Eau, one of his country residences on the shore of Lake Geneva, Eynard arranged a groom, a coachman, and three gardeners holding the implements of their work: a broom, a rake, and a wheelbarrow. On the balcony above, laundresses pose among the drying linens.
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