Lot 49: LOUIS ROBERT (1810-1882)

Henriette Robert, c.1850
waxed salt print with its waxed paper negative
each approx. 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (23.5 x 19.5cm.) (2)

Louis Robert: l'Alchimie des Images, Aoste, Italy, Bibliotèque Régionale and Paris, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, and New York, Zabriskie Gallery, July 1999 - April 2000.

Exhibition catalogue, Louis Robert: l'Alchimie des Images, Paris, 1999, pls.12-13, fig.12, p.130.

From the artist;
by descent;
with Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris;
to the present owner.

Robert, son of Pierre Robert (1783-1832), the head chemist in the glass painting workshop at the Manufacture de Sèvres, also spent his career at this famous facility, first taking over his father's position and ultimately becoming Administrator in his later years. His training as a chemist provided the requisite background for his early experimentation in photography, which dates from c.1848-50. This print and its negative of daughter Henriette portray a carefully posed, contemplative sitter in a sensitive composition.

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