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Emperor Napoleon III

Olympe Aguado de las MarismasWW-1860-T002634

1860·Albumen silver print·Image: 13.7 × 9.1 cm (13.7 × 9.1 cm), arched top

Catalogue

Year: 1860
Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image: 13.7 × 9.1 cm (13.7 × 9.1 cm), arched top
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Olympe Aguado de las Marismas

Artist

Olympe Aguado de las Marismas

Photography

Count Olympe-Clemente-Alexandre-Auguste Aguado was a Franco-Spanish photographer and socialite, active primarily in the 1850s and 1860s. One of several early photographers who learned the practice from Gustave Le Gray, Aguado pioneered a number of photographic processes, including carte de visite photographs and photographic enlargement processes. He was also a founding member of the influential French Photographic Society in 1854.

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