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Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande
French (1787-1851)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of an artist

ca. 1843
daguerreotype
15.6 x 13.0 cm., 1/4 plate, under oval passe-partout
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 23378
76:0168:0151

NON-GEH NUMBER: 250

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gernsheim, Helmut & Alison. --L.J.M. Daguerre: The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968. pl. 61.//
Gernsheim, Helmut. --The Origins of Photography.-- New York: Thames & Hudson, 1982. pl. 20.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 23.//
Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p. 8.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 43.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//
Blühm, Andreas & Lippincott, Louise. --Light! The Industrial Age 1750-1900. Art & Science, Technology & Society.-- Amsterdam/Pittsburgh: Van Gogh Museum/Carnegie Museum of Art, 2000. p. 126.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February - June, 1977.//
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987.//
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"From Today Painting is Dead: Emergence of Photography During July Monarchy", US, NY, Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, December - March 11, 1989.//
"Masterpieces of the Art of Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, January 3 - December 31, 1989.//
"Beginnings of Art in Photography: Selections from the Museum's Nineteenth", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, December 22 - October 7, 1990.//
"Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography", US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//
"Light! The Industrial Age, 1750-1900. Art & Science, Technology & Society", US, PA, Pittsburgh April 6 - July 20, 2001.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(etched in copper) "250" recto-(etched in copper) "Daguerre"

NOTES: Cataloged 11/89, DZ. The portrait is identified by Helmut Gernsheim in his book on Daguerre (1968, fig. 61) as "possibly Charles Arrowsmith." R. Derek Wood in "The Diorama in Great Britain in the 1820's" (History of Photography, Autumn 1993, notes 6&7), cites correspondence with former archivist of the Société Francaise de Photographie, Pierre Harmant stating that he believed that the portrait was of painter and engraver Francois Jules Collignon. According to a death certificate, Collingnon dies in Bry- sur-Marne on November 16, 1846 at the age of 35 at the home of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. He was the first husband of Marie Félicité, daughter of Charles Arrowsmith, the brother of Madame Daguerre. Arrowsmith (born 1798) was a pupil of Daguerre, who worked with him on the diorama paintings. According to information provided in a letter by a niece, Mme Hugon-Roydor, Arrowsmith "died young, presumably about 1822." (Derek Wood, note 6) However, Bénezit lists activities at a later date. A third identification of Hippolyte Sébron has been suggested by Grant Romer, based upon the similarity of the sitter to an engraving of Sébron. Sébron worked with Daguerre on the Paris diorama paintings. For further information on these artists, see Bénezit's "Dictionnaire critique et documentaire..." [JS, 2000]

SUBJECT: portrait, artist

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