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The Temple of Vesta, Rome
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de PrangeyFrench Daguerreotypist · 1804–1892
All works by this person →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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- 1842
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 77c6f4d7-20dd-400f-bc04-c9b3547768cf
In 1842 Girault de Prangey traveled from his native France to Italy, Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, Turkey, Syria, and Palestine. His photographs of these ancient sites were fresh and innovative. By viewing the Temple of Vesta from an elevated perspective, he filled the plate from edge to edge, daringly excluding the foundation and one-third of the column shaft. No photographer before him had created as revealing a picture of a celebrated public monument. Only rediscovered in the 1920s, Girault de Prangey's daguerreotypes remained in the possession of a single family until a number of items were sold at auction in London in 2003.
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