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[Fountain of the Four Seasons by Jean-Auguste Barre]
Creator
Hippolyte BayardFrench Photographer · 1801–1887
All works by this person →Frenchman Hippolyte Bayard was one of the earliest experimenters in photography, though few will recognize his name today. While working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he devoted much of his free time to inventing processes that captured and fixed images from nature on paper using a basic camera, chemicals, and light. The announcement of the invent
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- about 1847
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- f0079519-16f4-4106-b568-a187a61b7af6
A fountain with a large round basin and two tiers. Sculptures of nude figures are supporting the top tier. Water is pouring into the lower basins from narrow, distinct streams.
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