[Town house of Jean-Gabriel Eynard, called Palais Eynard at Geneva, Switzerland]

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[Town house of Jean-Gabriel Eynard, called Palais Eynard at Geneva, Switzerland]

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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
October 21, 1851
Medium
Daguerreotype
Culture
Swiss
Department
Photographs
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