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[La Fontaine Saint-Sulpice]
Creator
Hippolyte BayardFrench Photographer · 1801–1887
All works by this person →Frenchman Hippolyte Bayard was one of the earliest experimenters in photography, though few will recognize his name today. While working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he devoted much of his free time to inventing processes that captured and fixed images from nature on paper using a basic camera, chemicals, and light. The announcement of the invent
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- 1848
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 66330d8b-2045-4d24-815c-c629fe1c6ee7
A fountain with a statue of a seated male figure in the center. The figure is set into a niche. The main basin of the fountain is decorated with lion sculptures. The middle basin is decorated with urns. Two figures are standing in front of the fountain.
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