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Self-portrait with a daguerreotype 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
For this self-portrait, a somewhat wearied Jean-Gabriel Eynard propped his elbow on a table, perhaps to steady himself. Clearly proud of his abilities as a daguerreotypist, he leaned one half of one of his panoramas of Geneva against his top hat. The color applied to his face and hands and the flower in his buttonhole was meant to heighten the appearance of reality and is unusual in Eynard's daguerreotypes.
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