Various Phoenician Antiquities
1864
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1864
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Various Phoenician Antiquities is a 1864 photographic by Louise Laffon, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Louise Laffon’s 1864 albumen photographs document ancient Phoenician artifacts from the Campana Collection at the Musée Napoléon III, later part of the Louvre. The Victoria and Albert Museum acquired 500 prints from her series, which included sculptures in marble, terracotta, and bronze. Laffon’s work was produced under the gender-neutral mark “L. Laffon” at her Paris studio, *Photographie Lord Byron*. Surviving gilded mounts bear witness to the presentation of these images as formal museum objects.
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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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