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Fortuné Joseph PETIOT-GROFFIER (1788-1855, attributed to). Quai de la Monnaie, Pont Saint Laurent and Hôpital de Chalon-sur-Saône, view from Quai Sainte Marie. Circa 1850-1855. Large paper negative, full size approx. 36 x 27 cm. Missing. Provenance: House in Burgundy. Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855), a leading industrialist and mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, founded the Creusot sugar refinery and saved it after the bankruptcy of the English company Manby and Wilson. As early as 1840, he took an interest in photography and opened his own laboratory, where he became acquainted with a number of photographers of the period, including Nicéphore Niépce, his cousin Niépce de Saint-Victor, Pierre Victor Plumier and Edouard Denis Baldus. It was with the latter that he traveled the roads of Auvergne, around 1854, before mysteriously dying in 1855. His photographic work was varied. In 1851, Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier made the first tribute to Nicéphore Niépce by photographing his house. In 1853, having learned that it had been decided to demolish the great nave of the Hôpital de Châlon, the Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie asked Petiot-Groffier to take "general views" of the building (to preserve its memory) before its demolition. Finally, in 1854, he became one of the founding members of the Société française de Photographie. Bibliography Pierre Ambroise RICHEBOURG,Conseils à Fortuné Petiot-Groffier, Recherches en cours sur quelques daguerréotypes, Carnet de Rhinocéros, Paris, 2009. Kate ADDLEMAN-FRANKEL, After photography, the photogravures of Edouard Baldus reconsidered,Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2018. Édouard-Denis BALDUS. Heliogravures: selections from "Les principaux monuments de la France", exhibitions, Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, 1994. Expert: Madame Isabelle Cazeils
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Fortuné Joseph PETIOT-GROFFIER (1788-1855, attributed to). Quai de la Monnaie, Pont Saint Laurent and Hôpital de Chalon-sur-Saône, view from Quai Sainte Marie. Circa 1850-1855. Large paper negative, full size approx. 36 x 27 cm. Missing. Provenance: House in Burgundy. Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855), a leading industrialist and mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, founded the Creusot sugar refinery and saved it after the bankruptcy of the English company Manby and Wilson. As early as 1840, he took an interest in photography and opened his own laboratory, where he became acquainted with a number of photographers of the period, including Nicéphore Niépce, his cousin Niépce de Saint-Victor, Pierre Victor Plumier and Edouard Denis Baldus. It was with the latter that he traveled the roads of Auvergne, around 1854, before mysteriously dying in 1855. His photographic work was varied. In 1851, Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier made the first tribute to Nicéphore Niépce by photographing his house. In 1853, having learned that it had been decided to demolish the great nave of the Hôpital de Châlon, the Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie asked Petiot-Groffier to take "general views" of the building (to preserve its memory) before its demolition. Finally, in 1854, he became one of the founding members of the Société française de Photographie. Bibliography Pierre Ambroise RICHEBOURG,Conseils à Fortuné Petiot-Groffier, Recherches en cours sur quelques daguerréotypes, Carnet de Rhinocéros, Paris, 2009. Kate ADDLEMAN-FRANKEL, After photography, the photogravures of Edouard Baldus reconsidered,Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2018. Édouard-Denis BALDUS. Heliogravures: selections from "Les principaux monuments de la France", exhibitions, Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, 1994. Expert: Madame Isabelle Cazeils
