Ten Servants

Getty Museum

Ten Servants

Creator

Jean-Gabriel Eynard

Swiss 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

More on Getty ULAN

Date: about 1849
Medium: Daguerreotype
Culture: Swiss
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Jean-Gabriel Eynard carefully recorded the names and positions of his servants on the backs of the daguerreotypes he made of his large domestic staff. Thus it is known that he employed maids, valets, a butler, cooks, a milkman, coachmen, grooms, and gardeners for both flowers and vegetables. Eynard made this study and another group portrait of his servants outdoors at his country house near Rolle, on Lake Geneva, some distance from his principal residence in the city.

View at Getty Museum ↗

The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page

See at Getty Museum

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.