Excursions Daguerriennes. Vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe
Medium
Etchings, aquatints, lithographs, and photogravures after daguerreotypes
Dimensions
10 13/16 × 15 1/4 × 1 7/16 in. (27.5 × 38.8 × 3.7 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.152
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau|Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours · 1819–1896
**Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau (1819–1896)** was a French physicist whose pioneering work in photography placed him among the earliest practitioners of the medium as both a scientific tool and an artistic pursuit. Born in Paris to Louis and Beatrice Fizeau, he married into the prominent de Jussieu botanical family. His earliest experiments focused on refining photographic processes, particularly ...