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Fortuné Joseph PETIOT-GROFFIER (1788-1855) and Jean-Marie TAUPENOT (1822-1856). View of the school at La Flèche (Prytanée national militaire de la Flèche). Circa 1853. Albumen negative" print mounted on card. Bottom right, signature and date. Missing visual. Attached is a second print "Vue de la chapelle du jardin de Mr BONNARD à Vessey par P. G. ("Négatif sur Collodion" by photographer PETIOT-GROFFIER) mounted on cardboard (foxing, visual format approx. 21.5 x 16.5 cm and mounting format approx. 24.7 x 20 cm. Both visuals are framed in poor condition, with handwritten captions on versos. Provenance: Residence in Burgundy. Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855), a major industrialist and mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, founded the Creusot sugar mill and saved it from bankruptcy after the English company Manby and Wilson went bankrupt. 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 "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) and Jean-Marie TAUPENOT (1822-1856). View of the school at La Flèche (Prytanée national militaire de la Flèche). Circa 1853. Albumen negative" print mounted on card. Bottom right, signature and date. Missing visual. Attached is a second print "Vue de la chapelle du jardin de Mr BONNARD à Vessey par P. G. ("Négatif sur Collodion" by photographer PETIOT-GROFFIER) mounted on cardboard (foxing, visual format approx. 21.5 x 16.5 cm and mounting format approx. 24.7 x 20 cm. Both visuals are framed in poor condition, with handwritten captions on versos. Provenance: Residence in Burgundy. Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855), a major industrialist and mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, founded the Creusot sugar mill and saved it from bankruptcy after the English company Manby and Wilson went bankrupt. 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 "Les principaux monuments de la France", exhibitions, Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, 1994. Expert: Madame Isabelle Cazeils
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