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Members of Eynard Family and Friends
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 1846
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- Swiss
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ca17d2a3-b5e3-450f-9c9f-e63a93556681
Members of Jean-Gabriel Eynard's family and friends are gathered on the steps at Beaulieu, one of his country houses. Eynard's uncharacteristic absence from the scene indicates that he operated the camera himself, as well as posed the sitters. The patterns of the striped dresses and the delicately intertwined vines on the curtains add materially to the visual interest of the image. The three seated children, Eynard's great-nephews and great-niece, appear as young adults in a later daguerreotype by Eynard. His wife Anna is the woman seated at left, and their adopted daughter is in the center.
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