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Artists›Louis-Auguste Bisson

Louis-Auguste Bisson

Artist

WA-00026253

PhotographyPhotography

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None documented

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ127287 ULAN500020179

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984–1985

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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Roots of French Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949–1950

No image

Photography 1839�1937

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1937

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/577
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Institutional

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Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (22)

Ascension of Mt. Blanc. Les Grands-Mulets

1861 · Albumen silver print

8 3/4 × 15 1/4" (22.1 × 38.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ascent of Mont Blanc

1861 · Collodion silver print

9 × 15 1/8" (22.8 × 38.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Graftombe van Duchesse de Luynes

1860 · albumen print on cardboard

width: 191 cm, height: 159 cm, width: 487 cm, height: 351 cm

Rijksmuseum

Untitled

1860 · Albumen silver print

13 15/16 × 18" (35.4 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Temples of Saturn and Concord in the Roman Forum

1860 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

14 3/8 × 17 11/16" (36.6 × 44.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum

1860 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

17 3/4 × 15" (45.1 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mont Blanc

1860 · Collodion silver print

13 1/4 × 17 7/8" (33.6 × 45.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pic du Midi Mont Blanc

1860 · Collodion silver print

10 5/8 × 14 7/8" (27.0 × 37.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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The Ascent of Mont Blanc

1860 · Albumen silver print

10 3/4 × 17 3/8" (27.3 × 44.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Ice Pinnacles of the Giant, Mont Blanc

1860 · Albumen silver print from a glass-plate negative

9 1/2 × 15 7/8" (24.1 × 40.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1857 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

17 11/16 × 13 1/2" (44.9 × 34.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pavillon Turgot, Palais du Louvre

1855 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

17 1/2 × 12 3/4" (44.4 × 32.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Reims Cathedral (buttresses of the nave)

1855 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

17 3/4 × 13 3/8" (45.1 × 34.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hôtel De Ville, Paris

1855 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

13 1/2 × 17 7/8" (34.4 × 45.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Reims Cathedral (detail of facade)

1855 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

17 11/16 × 14 3/8" (44.9 × 35.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Arc du Carrousel and the Palais des Tuillreies

1855 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

10 7/16 × 18" (26.5 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris

1853 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

15 5/8 × 13 1/8" (39.7 × 33.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris (detail of facade)

1853 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

14 7/16 × 17 13/16" (36.6 × 45.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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UNTITLED (PLACE DE LA CONCORDE)

1850 · Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative

8 1/4 × 14 1/2" (21.0 × 37.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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[Profile of a Woman with Necrosis of the Nose]

1841 · Daguerreotype

Image: 4 9/16 × 3 1/8 in. (11.6 × 7.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

7.6 x 10.3 cm (3 x 4 1/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Detail of the Architrave of the Temple of Vespatian, Roman Forum, Rome

Albumen silver print from a glass negative

15 × 11 1/8" (38.2 × 28.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

22 published of 41 catalogued · 34 with image

MoMA
19 publishedof 38 catalogued33 img
The Met
2 published
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Graftombe van Duchesse de Luynes
1860 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

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Movements1

Photography

Collections3

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

New York · 1984

Group Exhibition Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography

New York · 1981

Group Exhibition Roots of French Photography

New York · 1949

Group Exhibition Photography 1839�1937

New York · 1937