[Orangery of Palais Eynard, Geneva]

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[Orangery of Palais Eynard, Geneva]

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Jean-Gabriel Eynard

Swiss Daguerreotypist · 1775–1863

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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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Date: about 1850
Medium: Daguerreotype
Culture: Swiss
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Adjoining the modest garden behind Jean-Gabriel Eynard's mansion in Geneva was a public botanical garden that included rose beds, a vineyard, and an elaborate greenhouse that housed tender plants like orange trees. In summer, the plants were lined up in precise rows in front of the greenhouse. Eynard himself sits on a bench at the left, barely visible as he reads a book. Also nearly hidden, a gardener in a smock stands at the right with his garden shears pointed down, ready for work.

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