Louis-Auguste Bisson - European Skulls, 1841/1846

Maker: Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814-1876)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: lithograph from daguerreotypes
Size: 13 in x 19.5 in
Location: France

Object No. 2017.477c
Shelf: CF

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Provenance: Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

Notes: Large lithographic plate reproducing six daguerreotypes by Louis-Auguste Bisson ca. 1841 of skulls from natives of France and Moravia. With printed attribution "Voyage au Pôle Sud & Dans L'Océanie / Anthropologie, Pl. 25 bis / Gide Éditeur / Lith par Léveillé d'après les crânes naturels, photographié par Bisson, sous la Direction de Mr. le Dr. Dumoutier / Imp. par Thierry Frères a Paris. From the rare illustrative supplement to Dumont D'Urville, "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie..." (1842-7). The subjects are identified in the image as "Homme / Femme / Homme / Des Sepultures antiques de Boulogne sur Mer, Dept. du Pas de Calais, France, (Europe) / Du Dept. de la Seine, Rme. de France (Europe) / De la Moravie, Empire d'Autriche (Europe)." This is reported to be the first use of photography in a government publication.

Produced at the very dawn of the photographic era, these daguerreian lithographs are one of the earliest uses of photography as a scientific mirror of the external world. Their meticulous detail and strong three-dimensionality recreates the impression of the original daguerreotype plates. Some of Bisson's original daguerreotypes from the project survive in museums, and two (of skulls) are illustrated in "Le daguerréotype français: Un objet photographique" (2003), pp. 369-370, as well as in "Les Freres Bisson photographies" (1999) cat 213 & 214.

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Taken on: August 18, 2009

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