Artist: Louis Daguerre (1787 - 1851)
Nationality: French
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Louis Daguerre was a founder of modern photography, inventing the diorama in 1822, the daguerreotype and the first easily executed photographic process made public in 1839.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Portrait of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
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Louis Jacques MandÈ' Daguerre Figure in Gothic Ruins brown ink and wash on wove paper 1821
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Rooftop and Chimneys, Lacock Abbey
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Writing Table
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Daguerreotypomania
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Professor Samuel Morse
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Self-portrait with His Son Francis
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Lemuel Shaw, ca. 1850 Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901)Daguerreotype; 21.6
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Louis Surugue Portrait of Louis de Bologne, pere, painter ET 1733
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Richard Lindner - Louis II 1962 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Francois Louis Couche Louis Bonaparte 18th - 19th century
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Jean Louis Roullet Portrait of Jacques Louis de Beringhen Engraving 17th century
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Jean Baptist Louis Massard Louis XVIII Engraving and etching 18th - 19th century
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Louis Cossin Portrait of Louis Roupert, after the painting by Pierre Rabon engraving 1668
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Paul Cezanne - Louis Guillaume c. 1882 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Antoine Coysevox - Louis XV as a Child of Six 1716 marble The Frick Collection French
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Thomas Eakins - Louis Husson 1899 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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ThÈophile Alexandre Steinlen Veuves d'un Louis (The widows of one "Louis" Lithograph 1915
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Louis C. Rosenberg, A. R. E. Place St. Louis, Metz Etching and drypoint 19th - 20th century
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FranÁois Chereau Portrait of Louis Pecour (Louis-Guillaume Pecourt), maÓtre de ballet(balletmaster) circa 1700
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Louis Surugue Le PËre de Rembrandt engraving 1759
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Louis Surugue Le PËre de Rembrandt engraving 1759
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William Henry Fox Talbot Portrait of Artist's Daughter, Rosamund, Holding a Flower Salted paper print from Calotype negative circa 1844
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Louis de Boullongne the Younger Male AcadÈmie black and white chalk on blue laid paper 1712
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Louis Surugue Le Philosphe en Contemplation engraving 1754
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Louis Surugue Le Philosophe en Meditation engraving 1753
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Robert Louis Stevenson 1895-1926 bronze North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix - Louis-Auguste Schwiter 1826-1830 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin - The Bridge of Louis Philippe 1875 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Jean Louis Petitot Prince de Conti, Francois-Louis, elected King of Poland paint, ivory, gilt metal and glass 18th century
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Frans Pourbus II - Portrait of Louis XIII c. 1610 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Flemish
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man, ca. 1780 Louis Marie Sicardi (French, 1743-1825)Ivory; Oval, 1 3/8 x
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Ary Scheffer - The Last Communion of Saint Louis 1823 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Ary Scheffer - The Death of Saint Louis c. 1817 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Isamu Noguchi - Constellation (for Louis Kahn) 1980-83 basalt Kimbell Art Museum American
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Ary Scheffer - The Last Communion of Saint Louis 1823 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Ary Scheffer - The Death of Saint Louis c. 1817 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Louis de Boullongne the Elder Martyrdom of St. Paul etching 17th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Table
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Plate iridescent Favrile glass, brass, and enamel circa 1921
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Mayer & Pierson Portrait of the composer, Rossini Salted-paper print from a glass negative 1855
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Jose Aparicio - Portrait of Jean-Louis Reynier 1806 oil on panel Utah Museum of Fine Arts Spanish
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Leon-Mathieu Couchereau - The Studio of Jacques-Louis David 1814 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art French
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William Henry Fox Talbot Sir Walter Scott's Monument, Edinburgh, proof for pl. 2 of the book Sun Pictures in Scotland (published 1845) salted-paper print from a calotype negative 1844
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Jean Hippolyte Flandrin - Madame Louis Antoine de Cambourg 1846 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Antoine Coysevox - Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin c. 1698-1699 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Thomas Eakins - The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton 1900 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Nicolas de Largillierre - Anne Louis Goislard de Montsabert 1734 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Louis de Boullongne the Elder La Vierge au Mur Etching and engraving 17th century
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ) Actualites: Le Prince Louis recandidat Color lithograph 19th century
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Milton Avery - Portrait of Louis M. Eilshemius 1942 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Baron Louis Dominique Louis (1755-1837), 1844 Pierre-Laurent Canon (French, 1787-1852)Ivory; Oval, 4 1/8 x 3
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Louis Orr Pont Marie, Paris ET 1923
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Franz Fleischbein - The Children of Comte Louis Amedie de Barjerac 1839 oil on canvas Louisiana State Museum German
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Frans Pourbus - Louis XIII (1601-1643) as a Child 1611 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Flemish
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Louis Petit Titlepage - Recueil des Oevres de Musique de J.J. Rousseau, Tome I engraving 18th - 19th century
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Robert Nanteuil Portrait of Louis XIV Engraving 17th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Secrétaire
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Louis Francois Mariage SemirÈ et MÈlide Color aquatint, etching and engraving 19th century
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Robert Nanteuil Portrait of Louis-Dominique de Bailleul Engraving 1638
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Head of King Louis XV
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Thomas Eakins - Annie C. Lochrey Husson (Mrs. Louis Husson) c. 1905 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Louis Schanker Movement color woodcut 1936
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Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard - Louis-Phillippe and His Sons, the Duke of Chartes and of Nemours c. 1830-32 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Paul Cezanne - The Painter's Father, Louis-Auguste Cezanne c. 1862 oil on house paint o The National Gallery, London French
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Luca di Tomme - Virgin and Child with Saints Louis of Toulouse and Michael before 1362 tempera on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Louis Francois Mariage Le premier navigateur et MÈlide Color aquatint, etching and engraving 19th century
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Louis-EugËne or EugËne-Louis Pirodon Entrevista De Su Santidad El Papa Pio IX Y De Sus Majestades El Emperador y La Emperatriz de Mexico/ En El Palacio Mariscotti, en Roma, el 20 de Abril de 1864 (Meeting of His Holiness Pope Pius IX and their
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Jacob Lawrence - One of the largest race riots occurred in East St. Louis. 1940-41 tempera on gesso on The Museum of Modern Art American
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Cosme Tura - The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse c. 1470-1480 tempera and distempe National Gallery of Art Italian
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Jean Baptiste Simonet Ecrivez de ma part au marechal de Nosilles que, pendant qu'on portrait Louis XIII au tombeau, le prince do Conde gagnait une bataille . . . from Siecle de Louis XV Engraving 18th - 19th century
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Louis de Boullongne the Elder La Vierge a l'oiseau (The Holy Family and the bird) Etching and engraving 17th century
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Alexandre Roslin - Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Saluting his Army on the Battlefield 1757 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Swedish
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Henri Lehmann - Jean Louis Gabriel, Rector of Saint Merri 1861 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Louis Francois Mariage Le premier navigateur arrÍtÈ ‡ la porte de la cabane Color aquatint, etching and engraving 19th century
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Plate glass circa 1900
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Plate glass circa 1900
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Goblet glass circa 1900
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Auguste Louis LepËre Clisson Etching 1909
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Pierre Louis Dagoty Compote porcelain circa 1812
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Jar favrille (?) glass circa 1900
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Auguste Louis LepËre Les Bords de la Vie Etching 1908
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Louis Orr La Place Vendome, Paris ET 19th - 20th century
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Meat platter silver 1877
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Antoine Louis Barye Deer bronze 19th century
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Jean-Gaspard Heilmann Louis XV oil on canvas 18th century
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Louis J. Rogers Manana (Mexican man with a sombrero hat) Drypoint 1931
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Louis Felix de la Rue Vignette engraving 18th century
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Louis Felix de la Rue Vignette engraving 18th century
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Louis Felix de la Rue Vignette engraving 18th century
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Louis Felix de la Rue Vignette engraving 18th century
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Vase glass 1906 - 1912
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Louis A. Toussaint Rue de la Parcheminerie etching 19th century
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Louis A. Toussaint Rue de la Harpe etching 19th century
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Louis Felix de la Rue Vignette engraving 18th century
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Louis A. Toussaint Rue Fromentel etching 19th century
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Louis A. Toussaint Rue Domat etching 19th century
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Louis Eilshemius Lake George oil on canvas 1897
Museum of Fine Arts -
Louis Kronberg, American, 1872-1965 Ballet Girl Against the Light 1934 Oil on canvas 60.96 x
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Anonymous Louis Bonaparte 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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American Museum of Photography: 160th Anniversary of Photography's Birth

The one-of-a-kind daguerreotypes in this exhibition were among 240 Southworth & Hawes images rediscovered last year in a basement in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The daguerreotypes--unknown and unseen for 60 years--sold for more than three million ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard
Daguerreotypy, invented in 1839 by the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was a method of capturing an image projected by a camera obscura onto silver-coated copper plates. In this process, the plates were sensitized with iodine vapor, expose...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier
I think there is enough variety in this exhibit to pique people's interest,'' says Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne-Sagendorph. Photographs range from portraits of scientists Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin to artists Andy Warhol and...
Sanford L. Smith & Associates: New York Photography Fair
The show offers something for everyone. This is a downtown show, said Sanford Smith, with a mix of emerging and established dealers that appeals to both younger and seasoned ...
National Gallery of Scotland: Rosslyn: Country Of Painter And Poet

For over 200 years, Rosslyn has attracted countless artists, writers and antiquaries and by the nineteenth century the Castle, Chapel and Glen were placed firmly on the tourist map of Scotland. The chapel was built in 1446 by Sir William St....
Carnegie Museum of Art: Light: The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society
Light! was organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, where it was previously on view. Pittsburgh is the only other venue for this remarkable exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by Bayer ...
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego: Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art
The diorama is, like its relative the panorama, an eighteenth-century innovation, a pre-cinematic form of entertainment and education intended to provide views of significant places and events. Fir...

Further Artwork and Information:

A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: DAGUERRE, Louis Jacques Mande
The Daguerreotype: The Daguerreian Society homepage
Louis Daguerre Chonology
Louis Daguerre (1280 - 1348) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
MSN Encarta - Louis Daguerre
Wikipedia: Louis Daguerre
Exposition sur Daguerre accueil
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé
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Louis Daguerre Online

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