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The Eynard Family and Friends
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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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- June 23, 1847
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- Daguerreotype
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- Swiss
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Jean-Gabriel Eynard frequently photographed his closest friends and family. Here the deRegny family--parents holding their children, who wear matching plaid dresses--joined the Eynards at Eynard's house in Paris. The slight blur in the children's faces compared with those of the adults indicates some youthful impatience and movement during the daguerreotype's long exposure. Eynard himself appears seated in profile second from the right, with his wife at the far left. This quarter-plate daguerreotype and others that Eynard made in the 1840s are smaller than the half-plate size he later favored.
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