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Cityscape of Geneva
Creator
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 1847
- Medium
- Hand-colored daguerreotype
- Culture
- Swiss
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Jean-Gabriel Eynard made two views of Geneva, which together form a panorama of a section of his adopted city. He stood in the old city on the left bank of the Rhone River, looking toward the quays along the right bank. Here he focused on the wooded island named after the famous writer and philosopher of the 1700s, Jean Jacques Rousseau, a native of Geneva. To the far right, the lower end of Lake Geneva opens out from the Rhone River.
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