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The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839–1855
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (French, 1787–1851)
The Pavillon de Flore and the Pont-Royal, 1839
Daguerreotype; 16.2 x 21.3 cm (6 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Louis-Auguste Bisson (French, 1814–1876)
Ancient Burial Place of Téa-Kaou (Pangaï-Motou), Mangareva, Gambier Islands, Polynesia, 1841–42
Daguerreotype; 16.2 x 12.1 cm (6 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
Photothèque, Musée de l'Homme, Paris
Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat and Stanislas Ratel (French, 1815–1858; French, 1824–1904)
The Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, ca. 1843–50
Daguerreotype; 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault (French, 1819–1868)
Brewer's Yeast, 1844
Daguerreotype; 9.5 x 12.7 cm (3 3/4 x 5 in.)
Société Française de Photographie, Paris
Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (French, 1801–1881)
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, 1844
Daguerreotype; 14.3 x 11.7 cm (5 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
George Eastman House, Rochester
Unknown artist
The Pont-Neuf, the Louvre, and the Quai de la Mégisserie, Paris, 1845–50
Daguerreotype; 11.1 x 37.5 cm (4 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Bull, Aurillac, 1850
Daguerreotype; 17.1 x 21 cm (6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Gérard Lévy Collection, Paris
Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (French, 1793–1870)
View of the East Facade of the Propylaea on the Acropolis, Athens, May–June, 1850
Daguerreotype; 14.9 x 20 cm (5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
The Photographer's Daughter and a Woman, ca. 1850
Daguerreotype; 21 x 16.2 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.)
Alphonse Bon Le Blondel (French, 1812–1875)
Man at the Bedside of His Dead Child, ca. 1850
Daguerreotype; 8.9 x 12.1 cm (3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Gilman Paper Company Collection
Jacques-Antoine Moulin (French, 1802–after 1875)
Two Standing Nudes, ca. 1850
Daguerreotype; 14.6 x 11.1 cm (5 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997 (1997.382.46)
Salon of Baron Gros, 1850–57
Daguerreotype; 22.2 x 17.1 cm (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Private collection
Two Girls Looking at a Picture Book, ca. 1850–55
Daguerreotype; 19.1 x 15.2 cm (7 1/2 x 6 in.)
Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Louis-Cyrus Macaire and Jean-Victor Macaire-Warnod, known as "les frères Macaire" (French, 1807–1871; French, 1812–after 1886)
Ship Leaving the Port of Le Havre, 1851
Daguerreotype; 15.2 x 11.1 cm (6 x 4 3/8 in.)
Charles Hugo (French, 1826–1871)
Victor Hugo Writing at His Desk, 1853
Daguerreotype; 14 x 12.1 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Alexandre Clausel (French, 1802–1884)
Landscape near Troyes, ca. 1855
Daguerreotype; 10.5 x 14.6 cm (4 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.)