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Self-Portrait with Daguerreotype of the Roman Forum
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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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- about 1845
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- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- Swiss
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
> For the wealthy Swiss amateur Jean-Gabriel Eynard, photography was a source of personal and familial amusement. He learned the daguerreotype process in Paris in the early 1840s and, aided by his gardener, Jean Rion, went on to create one of the most significant bodies of daguerreian work to survive. His engagement with photography would span more than twenty years. > > In a series of more than one hundred daguerreotypes, Eynard, with Rion's assistance, sensitively recorded the multiple aspects of his daily existence at the Chateau Eynard in Geneva. For this self-portrait, he posed himself in the company of Daguerre's manual, a framed daguerreotype of the temples of Saturn and Divine Vespasian in the Roman Forum, and a bronze statue. Adapted from Weston Naef, *The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Photographs Collection* (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 35-36. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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