Artist: Louis Daguerre (1787 - 1851)
Nationality: French
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Louis Daguerre was a founder of modern photography, inventing the diorama in 1822, the daguerreotype and the first easily executed photographic process made public in 1839.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Portrait of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Louis Jacques MandÈ" Daguerre, Figure in Gothic Ruins, 1821
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Rooftop and Chimneys, Lacock Abbey
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Daguerreotypomania
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Writing Table
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Professor Samuel Morse
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Self-portrait with His Son Francis
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Louis C. Rosenberg, A. R. E., Place St. Louis, Metz, 19th - 20th century
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Louis Surugue, Portrait of Louis de Bologne, pere, painter, 1733
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Jean Baptist Louis Massard, Louis XVIII, 18th - 19th century
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Louis Cossin, Portrait of Louis Roupert, after the painting by Pierre Rabon, 1668
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ThÈophile Alexandre Steinlen, Veuves d"un Louis (The widows of one "Louis", 1915
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Francois Louis Couche, Louis Bonaparte, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Louis Roullet, Portrait of Jacques Louis de Beringhen, 17th century
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Richard Lindner - Louis II 1962 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jean Louis Petitot, Prince de Conti, Francois-Louis, elected King of Poland, 18th century
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Lemuel Shaw, ca. 1850 Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901)Daguerreotype; 21.6
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Thomas Eakins - Louis Husson 1899 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Antoine Coysevox - Louis XV as a Child of Six 1716 marble The Frick Collection French
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Paul Cezanne - Louis Guillaume c. 1882 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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FranÁois Chereau, Portrait of Louis Pecour (Louis-Guillaume Pecourt), maÓtre de ballet(balletmaster), circa 1700
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Robert Louis Stevenson 1895-1926 bronze North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix - Louis-Auguste Schwiter 1826-1830 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin - The Bridge of Louis Philippe 1875 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Louis XVI armchair, circa 1785
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Frans Pourbus II - Portrait of Louis XIII c. 1610 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Flemish
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Louis XV armchair, circa 1740
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Louis XV armchair, circa 1740
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Louis XV armchair, circa 1740
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Louis XV armchair, circa 1740
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Louis XV armchair, circa 1740
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Louis XV armchair, circa 1740
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Louis XV armchair, circa 1740
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Louis XV armchair , circa 1740
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man, ca. 1780 Louis Marie Sicardi (French, 1743-1825)Ivory; Oval, 1 3/8 x
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Isamu Noguchi - Constellation (for Louis Kahn) 1980-83 basalt Kimbell Art Museum American
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Ary Scheffer - The Last Communion of Saint Louis 1823 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Ary Scheffer - The Death of Saint Louis c. 1817 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Ary Scheffer - The Last Communion of Saint Louis 1823 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Ary Scheffer - The Death of Saint Louis c. 1817 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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American Museum of Photography: 160th Anniversary of Photography's Birth

The one-of-a-kind daguerreotypes in this exhibition were among 240 Southworth & Hawes images rediscovered last year in a basement in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The daguerreotypes--unknown and unseen for 60 years--sold for more than three million ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard
Daguerreotypy, invented in 1839 by the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was a method of capturing an image projected by a camera obscura onto silver-coated copper plates. In this process, the plates were sensitized with iodine vapor, expose...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier
I think there is enough variety in this exhibit to pique people's interest,'' says Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne-Sagendorph. Photographs range from portraits of scientists Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin to artists Andy Warhol and...
Sanford L. Smith & Associates: New York Photography Fair
The show offers something for everyone. This is a downtown show, said Sanford Smith, with a mix of emerging and established dealers that appeals to both younger and seasoned ...
National Gallery of Scotland: Rosslyn: Country Of Painter And Poet

For over 200 years, Rosslyn has attracted countless artists, writers and antiquaries and by the nineteenth century the Castle, Chapel and Glen were placed firmly on the tourist map of Scotland. The chapel was built in 1446 by Sir William St....
Carnegie Museum of Art: Light: The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society
Light! was organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, where it was previously on view. Pittsburgh is the only other venue for this remarkable exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by Bayer ...
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego: Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art
The diorama is, like its relative the panorama, an eighteenth-century innovation, a pre-cinematic form of entertainment and education intended to provide views of significant places and events. Fir...

Further Artwork and Information:

A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: DAGUERRE, Louis Jacques Mande
The Daguerreotype: The Daguerreian Society homepage
Louis Daguerre Chonology
Louis Daguerre (1280 - 1348) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
MSN Encarta - Louis Daguerre
Wikipedia: Louis Daguerre
Exposition sur Daguerre accueil
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé
DAGUERRE
Louis Daguerre Online

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