Bisson, Auguste-Rosalie
French (1826-1900)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Ascension au Mont-Blanc
ALBUM TITLE: --Haute-Savoie, Le Mont Blanc et Ses Glaciers, Souvenir du Voyage de LL. M.M. L'Empereur et L'Impératrice--, Paris, 1860, pl. 16.

1860
albumen print from collodion negative
23.1 x 38.1 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 6672
81:1014:0016

OLD GEH NUMBERS: 175-429:16 175-183
NON-GEH NUMBER: 16

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 143.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 139.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Roots of French Photography", US, NY, New York, Museum of Modern Art, November 30, 1949 - January 15, 1950.//
"150 Years of Invention of (sic) Photography", Czechoslovakia, Prague, Manes Gallery, August 1 - September 30, 1989.//
"Beginnings of Art in Photography: Selections from the Museum's Nineteenth", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, December 22 - October 7, 1990.//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(blindstamp "FBF (circled)" (stamped on mount, below image) "16" "Bisson freres" (in pencil) "Ascension au Mont-Blanc par Mr. Bisson freres."

NOTES: Cataloged 11/88, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, glacier
people, climbing