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Fortuné Joseph PETIOT-GROFFIER (1788-1855). Maison du Gras in St Loup de Varennes. Circa 1850-55. Albumen print mounted on card. Visual size approx. 22.7 x 14.7 cm; mounting size approx. 33.6 x 27.6 cm. A similar visual illustrated the poster for the exhibition "Nicéphore Niépce House - The house were the first photograph was made". Provenance: House in Burgundy. Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855), a major industrialist and mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, founded the sugar factory and saved the Creusot plant 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). Maison du Gras in St Loup de Varennes. Circa 1850-55. Albumen print mounted on card. Visual size approx. 22.7 x 14.7 cm; mounting size approx. 33.6 x 27.6 cm. A similar visual illustrated the poster for the exhibition "Nicéphore Niépce House - The house were the first photograph was made". Provenance: House in Burgundy. Fortuné Joseph Petiot-Groffier (1788-1855), a major industrialist and mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, founded the sugar factory and saved the Creusot plant 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
