Roadside Scene

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Roadside Scene

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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 1856
Medium: Daguerreotype
Culture: Swiss
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

No other Jean-Gabriel Eynard image is quite so filled with activity and objects as this one. Oxen pull a cart, men gather for a conversation, and a carriage pulled by two handsome horses pauses on its journey. The cropped lawn and smoothly groomed road suggest that Eynard staged this scene on his own estate rather than on a public highway. The photographer himself peers out of the carriage next to Henri Dunant, the standing man in a dark topcoat, who later founded the Red Cross.

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