Fouquet, J
Chretien (later photographer/printer)

TITLE ON OBJECT: A.J.A. Ruihiere Chef de la division de Cavalerie de la garde Nationale Parisienne né l 6 janvier 1731. dess. p. Fouquet.gr.p. Chret ien inv. du physionotrace Cloitre 3d honoré ŕ Paris.
TRANSLATED TITLE: A.J.A. Ruilhiere, Chief of the Calvary division of the Paris National Guard. Born January 6, 1731, drawing by Fouquet engraving by Chretien, inventor of physionotrace 3D. Honored in Paris.

ca. 1790
physionotrace engraving
8.9 cm. (diameter)
Museum Collection
72:0079:0074

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 39.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "A.J.A. Ruilhiere Chef de la division de Cavalerie de la garde Nationale Parisienne né 6 janvier 1731. dess.p. fouquet.gr.p. Chretien inv. du physionotrace Cloitre 3d honoré ŕ Paris."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/98, DZ. Physionotrace, a method for multiple printing of profile pictures. Invented by Chretien in 1786, the machine employed a mechanical linkage by that which a stylus moved over a profile cast on a glass plate and an engraving tool acting on a copper plate was inked and printed in quantity.

SUBJECT: portrait, military / Ruilhiere, A.J.A.