[Portrait of Living Man beside Dead Man]
Louis Dodero
ca. 1850
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Medium
Daguerreotype
Dimensions
Image: 2 5/8 × 3 7/16 in. (6.7 × 8.7 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2015
Accession Number
2015.452
Tags
MenPortraitsDeath
About the Artist
Louis Dodero · 1820–1880
Louis Dodero, born Luigi Dodero on September 6, 1824, in Genoa, Italy, emerged as a pioneering figure in early photography after relocating to Marseille, France, where he worked actively from the 1840s through the 1860s. Little is known of his early training, suggesting his formative years remain sparsely documented, though his dual profession as an optician and photographer indicates a practical ...