Peasant Father and His Son
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
Image: 9 × 6.7 cm (3 9/16 × 2 11/16 in.); Paper: 28.5 × 20 cm (11 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
18081
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau · 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 ...