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Bisson Frères
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Partnership
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- Professional
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Activity
1857 - 1858 [Belgium, views of]
Louis Auguste (° Paris, 21.4.1814; + Paris, 11.5.1876) and his younger brother Auguste Rosalie (° Paris, 1.5.1826; + Paris, 22.5.1900). Photographers operating in Paris from the early 1840s. Their running series of architectural studies was entitled "Reproductions photographiques des plus beaux types d'architecture et de sculpture d'après les plus remarquables de l'antiquité, du moyen âge et de la renaissance". Prints were generally 48 x 40 cm on mounts measuring 72 x 55 cm. The series, finally comprising a total of some 250 prints, including over twenty views taken in Belgium, as follows: Antwerp (3), Audenarde (2), Bruges (4), Brussels (4), Ghent (5), Louvain (2) and Ypres (1). The Belgian negatives were taken by the Bissons' operator, Jean-Claude Marmand, accompanied by Gilbert Radoux, who possessed local knowledge of promising subjects and potential viewpoints.
Louis Auguste (° Paris, 21.4.1814; + Paris, 11.5.1876) and his younger brother Auguste Rosalie (° Paris, 1.5.1826; + Paris, 22.5.1900). Photographers operating in Paris from the early 1840s. Their running series of architectural studies was entitled "Reproductions photographiques des plus beaux types d'architecture et de sculpture d'après les plus remarquables de l'antiquité, du moyen âge et de la renaissance". Prints were generally 48 x 40 cm on mounts measuring 72 x 55 cm. The series, finally comprising a total of some 250 prints, including over twenty views taken in Belgium, as follows: Antwerp (3), Audenarde (2), Bruges (4), Brussels (4), Ghent (5), Louvain (2) and Ypres (1). The Belgian negatives were taken by the Bissons' operator, Jean-Claude Marmand, accompanied by Gilbert Radoux, who possessed local knowledge of promising subjects and potential viewpoints.
Locations
1857 - 1858 [Belgium, views of]
Exhibitions
London, 1861 ARC (views of Antwerp, Bruges and Oudenaarde).
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#265
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 9.12.2018; MD revised 1.2.2021; SFJ revised 8.2.2023 based on information supplied by Jos Demarée