Unidentified marble bust
1864
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1864
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Unidentified marble bust is a 1864 photographic by Louise Laffon, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photo shows a marble bust shot by Louise Laffon in 1863-1864. It’s black-and-white, like most early photos. The work fits two big art movements at once. A cool detail: the Victoria and Albert Museum started collecting photos way back in 1852. That makes this image part of the museum’s earliest photo collection. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The Victoria and Albert Museum holds one of 500 albumen prints purchased in 1864 from the Parisian photographer Louise Laffon, documenting marble sculpture from the Campana Collection at the Musée Napoléon III (now the Louvre). The series includes views of architecture, ornamentation, terra cotta, and marble works, with some prints retaining original gilded mounts marked with the gender-neutral stamp "L. Laffon" and the studio name "Photographie Lord Byron." Laffon, a member of the Société Française de la Photographie, supplied these photographs through the agent Monsieur E. Cappe to support…
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Louise Laffon (1828–1885), was a French photographer and painter. She was one of the first female professional photographers in France. She had a studio in Paris between 1859 and 1876.
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