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JEAN GABRIEL EYNARD (1775-1863)
Beaulieu Manor, Genève, c. 1845
two-thirds-plate daguerreotype, passe-partout
annotations in pencil (paper backing, verso)
Provenance
Michel Auer, Geneva;
The collection of Van Deren Coke;
By descent to Eleanor Barton Coke;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980s.
Literature
Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Au Temps Du Daguerréotype: Genève 1840-1860, Editions Ides et Calendes, 2001, p. 52.
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Born in Lyon, France, Jean Gabriel Eynard (1775-1863) learned the daguerreotype process in Paris in the nascent years of the medium. A man of considerable wealth, he pursued the daguerreotype for personal enjoyment and often photographed his family and home life in Geneva. The Beaulieu Manor, in Gilly, route de Genève 68, Switzerland, was renovated c. 1827 to include the neoclassical façade depicted in this daguerreotype.

Eynard’s work can be found in the collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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