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Olympe Aguado
(3rd Feb, 1827 - 25th Oct, 1894)
La Lecture
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
musée d'Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
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Keywords:
portrait of a group
man
woman
reading
dress
boredom
middle class
genre scene
sleep
lace-making
living room
interior scene
humour
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About the artwork
Title:
La Lecture
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
19th century
XIXth century
Techniques:
albumen print
Dimensions:
145 x 192
Inventory number:
PHO1998-10
Detail:
entre 1862 et 1864
Location:
musée d'Orsay
About the author(s)
Author:
Olympe Aguado
Also known as:
comte
Born:
3rd Feb, 1827
Dead:
25th Oct, 1894
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
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Olympe-Clemente-Alexandre-Auguste Aguado de las Marismas
(3 February 1827 – 25 October 1894) was a Franco-Spanish photographer and socialite, active primarily in the 1850s and 1860s. One of several early photographers who learned the practice from Gustave Le Gray, Aguado pioneered a number of photographic processes, including carte de visite photographs and photographic enlargement processes. He was also a founding member of the influential French Photographic Society in 1854.
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