Half length portrait of a bearded man sitting down and holding a small child who is seated on table to his left. He wears a dark jacket possibly with braiding, high collar and stock, and the child wears a dark dress with buttons down the front, a white collar and frilled hem pantaloons, boots and socks.The child wears a hat with ribbons and has a fringe of hair
Half length portrait of a bearded man sitting down and holding a small child who is seated on table to his left. He wears a dark jacket possibly with braiding, high collar and stock, and the child wears a dark dress with buttons down the front, a white collar and frilled hem pantaloons, boots and socks.The child wears a hat with ribbons and has a fringe of hair
Subject name
Inscription
Printed label stuck on rear of Edmond Fruit, Painter and Professor of Photography, whose address is on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and goes on to say how life like his work is and what an excellent likeness he achieves (in French)
Nicholas Burnett reference collection, United Kingdom
Creator
Name
Fruit, Edmond
notes
His name is on the list of members of the Heliographic Society in 1851, see https://plantureux.fr/tag/julien-vallou-de-villeneuve/
E Fruit began as a daguerreotypist in 1847. In November 1850, living at 291, rue Saint-Martin, he filed the patent for a device for daguerreotype "apparatus regulator by means of which one can use Bromine pure and whose application for Photography is a new discovery ". In September 1851, when he filed an additional patent, he was domiciled at 339 Saint-Martin Street. He worked at 139, rue du Temple then at 221 of this street but also at 25, rue des Moulins where he is domiciled in July 1868 when his daughter married.
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