Frieze on the Tower of the Winds, Athens

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Frieze on the Tower of the Winds, Athens

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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

French Daguerreotypist · 1804–1892

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Until recently, pioneering daguerreotypist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was unknown in the world of fine-art photography. His extraordinary images were discovered in a storeroom of his estate in the 1920s and only made known some eighty years later. Girault de Prangey studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and learned daguerreotypy in 1841, the same year inventor Louis-Jacque

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Date
1842
Medium
Daguerreotype
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
3328924e-4acf-498a-80e4-4e5422b2a0a9

Fine, clear, tightly-cropped detail of two of the Eight Winds around the top of the tower.

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