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Unidentified Photographer

TITLE ON OBJECT: Napoleon's Tomb at the Invalides/Napoleon in 1813
PUBLISHED TITLE: Tombeau de Napoleon. Napoleon en 1813.

ca. 1840
lithographic view for the polyorama panoptique with applied color
14.5 x 20.0 cm. (slide size)
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEG: 35079
77:0562:0001

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
"From Today Painting is Dead: Emergence of Photography During July Monarchy", US, NY, Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, December - March 11, 1989.//

NOTES: Cataloged 9/89, SB. The "toy diorama portatifs" or portable dioramas, are the only suviving indication of what Daguerre's original diorama might have looked like and how the lighting might have worked, although greatly reduced in scale. These "polyorama panoptiques" slides were used in the toy diorama. (Burger, --The Daguerreotype...--) Each slide shows two scenes. One when light is reflected and the other when the back is lifted and light is transmitted.

SUBJECT: allegory, historical

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