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Charles and Sophie Eynard and Their Children
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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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- about 1856
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- Swiss
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Jean-Gabriel Eynard's nephew and heir Charles Eynard married the daguerreotypist's adopted daughter, Sophie. They appear in this portrait with their children Gabriel, Hilda, and Féodor. Charles wrote biographies and, like other members of the family, was a talented amateur artist. Eynard's attempt to avoid the usual formality of group portraits of this period is reflected in his subjects' casual attitudes. Strangely enough, each figure is posed so that only a single hand is visible.
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