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Duboscq-Soleil, L. Jules
French (active 1840s-)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Still life with skull

ca. 1850
daguerreotype
8.3 x 6.9 cm., 1/6 plate
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEGS: 23334 8518
70:0001:0187

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rudisill, Richard. --Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971. pl. 118.//
Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p. 71.//
Szarkowski, John. --Photography Until Now.-- New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989. p. 318.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 46.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"A Survey of the Photographic Still Life", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Corridor, September 20 - November 4, 1988.//
"Photography Until Now", US, NY, New York, Museum of Modern Art - International Council Gall February 14 - May 29, 1990.//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Dubosq (sic)" "Removed from case & resealed 2/77" "no plate mark"

NOTES: Cataloged 9/88, DZ, updated 7/89.

SUBJECTS:
still life
artifact, skull

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