John Lemoinne
c. 1880
Medium
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique”
Dimensions
Image/paper: 22.3 × 17.7 cm (8 13/16 × 7 in.); Mount: 32 × 26 cm (12 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
woodburytype
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
144570
Art Historical Context
This woodburytype portrait of John Lemoinne, created around 1880 by the renowned French firm Goupil et Cie., captures the distinguished journalist and political commentator in a moment of quiet authority. Part of the influential periodical *Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique*, the image belongs to a celebrated series that presented photographic likenesses of leading cultural and intellectual figures of the day. The woodburytype process, patented in 1864, combined photographic detail with the permanence of ink, allowing for rich tonal gradations that closely mimicked original photogra...