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The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 18391855
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (French, 17871851)
The Pavillon de Flore and the Pont-Royal, 1839
Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
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Louis-Auguste Bisson (French, 18141876)
Ancient Burial Place of Téa-Kaou (Pangaï-Motou), Mangareva, Gambier Islands, Polynesia, 184142
Photothèque, Musée de l'Homme, Paris
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Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat and Stanislas Ratel (French, 18151858; French, 18241904)
The Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, ca. 184350
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
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Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault (French, 18191868)
Brewer's Yeast, 1844
Société Française de Photographie, Paris
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Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (French, 18011881)
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, 1844
George Eastman House, Rochester
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Unknown artist
The Pont-Neuf, the Louvre, and the Quai de la Mégisserie, Paris, 184550
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
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Louis-Auguste Bisson (French, 18141876)
Bull, Aurillac, 1850
Gérard Lévy Collection, Paris
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Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (French, 17931870)
View of the East Facade of the Propylaea on the Acropolis, Athens,
MayJune, 1850
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
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Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (French, 18011881)
The Photographer's Daughter and a Woman, ca. 1850
George Eastman House, Rochester
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Alphonse Bon Le Blondel (French, 18121875)
Man at the Bedside of His Dead Child, ca. 1850
Gilman Paper Company Collection
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Jacques-Antoine Moulin (French, 1802after 1875)
Two Standing Nudes, ca. 1850
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997 (1997.382.46)
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Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (French, 17931870)
Salon of Baron Gros, 185057
Private collection
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Unknown artist
Two Girls Looking at a Picture Book, ca. 185055
Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
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Louis-Cyrus Macaire and Jean-Victor Macaire-Warnod, known as "les frères Macaire" (French, 18071871; French, 1812after 1886)
Ship Leaving the Port of Le Havre, 1851
Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
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Charles Hugo (French, 18261871)
Victor Hugo Writing at His Desk, 1853
Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
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Alexandre Clausel (French, 18021884)
Landscape near Troyes, ca. 1855
George Eastman House, Rochester
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