Sujet
Artist (or Assistant) with Pipe, 1853-1857. Creator: Frank Chauvassaignes (French).
Légende
Artist (or Assistant) with Pipe, 1853-1857. Frank Chauvassaignes portrait is an outstanding example of compositional and technical achievement in early French photography. A handsome young painter, outfitted for work in the studio in a rumpled smock, appears to be caught in a moment of introspection, pipe in hand. The camera's lowered position gives the sitter a dignified air. In this formally balanced portrait, the photographer captured not only the sitter's physical likeness, but also his state of mind. Chauvassaignes, a photographer with a trained and sophisticated eye, lived in Clermont-Ferrand, a city in central France, and was a member of the Société française de photographie. To date, little information has been found about this artist and his small, though remarkable, body of known images
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F70_086
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
62,8Mo (3,7Mo) / 34,1cm x 46,1cm / 4032 x 5440 (300dpi)