St. Sulpice, Paris
Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau
ca. 1841
Medium
Photogravure
Classification
Photographs|Prints
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
Accession Number
46.122.22
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
ArchitectureParisChurches
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 ...