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Corbassière, Louis
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Maison Straus (at Rue du Pont-d'Ile)
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Paris, 1843 - ?, ?
Activity
1875 ca - 1879 / Liège, Rue du Pont-d'Ile, 4
Predecessor: Barras Victor Successor: Goldstein S. #
Christian Louis, ° 14.5.1843. May have arrived in Belgium in 1866. Recorded as a clerk living in Liège at Rue Regnier, 17 at the birth of a son there in March 1874. He then became a printer-lithographer and collotype printer at that address - see entry for Gustave Straus. "Corbassière, N." in the directories from 1877 until 1880. Operating the studio let by Straus at this address, probably from September 1875 and until late 1879. Despite Corbassière's presence, mounts exist bearing an unnamed studio at this address offering "Artistic photography. 12 portraits, 3 frs. 4th successful year" (La Meuse, 30.10.1877). An anonymous CV, presumably from late 1879, bears the two Liège addresses and Paris, Boulevard des Italiens, 15 (entrance Rue de Grammont, 30).
1877 * - 1879 / Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 12
Successor: Gonthier - Cornand Madame (in her own name)
Opening announced in September 1877, when he referred to his studio at "Maison Straus" as a branch (La Meuse, 22.9.1877). On announcing his closure of the studio at this address, Corbassière mentions "the forty thousand negatives taken since the studio was established on 20 September 1875" (La Meuse, 6.1.1880). Logically, this date must refer to the beginning of his occupation of the Rue du Pont-d'Ile studio. Corbassière returned to France by early January 1880 in the wake of bankruptcy and a forced sale of the contents of his studio on Boulevard d'Avroy.
On his return to France, Corbassière operated in Paris, Rue de Grammont, 30 (entrance Boulevard des Italiens, 15) in 1880, a studio trading as "Christian" from January 1879 at the latest (La Lanterne, 8.1.1879). Branch studio in Le Havre, 1881; Paris, Rue des Saints-Pères, in late 1881. On 31.12.1880, jointly with Paris-based photographer Alphonse Liébert (° Tournai, 30.11.1826; + Paris [F], 18.6.1913), Louis Corbassière, known as Christian, applied for a patent to import "a new photographic and graphic printing system, known as the Christian process". Corbassière went bankupt again and his studio in Rue de Grammont was put up for judicial sale on 7.12.1881. By 1885, Corbassière was operating as "Christian" in Paris at Rue des Saints-Pères, 40 (Figaro: Journal non politique, 25.1.1885), where the firm "Christian Corbassière et Cie" was founded on 1.5.1885. Still listed as a photographer at the latter address in 1901.
Predecessor: Barras Victor Successor: Goldstein S. #
Christian Louis, ° 14.5.1843. May have arrived in Belgium in 1866. Recorded as a clerk living in Liège at Rue Regnier, 17 at the birth of a son there in March 1874. He then became a printer-lithographer and collotype printer at that address - see entry for Gustave Straus. "Corbassière, N." in the directories from 1877 until 1880. Operating the studio let by Straus at this address, probably from September 1875 and until late 1879. Despite Corbassière's presence, mounts exist bearing an unnamed studio at this address offering "Artistic photography. 12 portraits, 3 frs. 4th successful year" (La Meuse, 30.10.1877). An anonymous CV, presumably from late 1879, bears the two Liège addresses and Paris, Boulevard des Italiens, 15 (entrance Rue de Grammont, 30).
1877 * - 1879 / Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 12
Successor: Gonthier - Cornand Madame (in her own name)
Opening announced in September 1877, when he referred to his studio at "Maison Straus" as a branch (La Meuse, 22.9.1877). On announcing his closure of the studio at this address, Corbassière mentions "the forty thousand negatives taken since the studio was established on 20 September 1875" (La Meuse, 6.1.1880). Logically, this date must refer to the beginning of his occupation of the Rue du Pont-d'Ile studio. Corbassière returned to France by early January 1880 in the wake of bankruptcy and a forced sale of the contents of his studio on Boulevard d'Avroy.
On his return to France, Corbassière operated in Paris, Rue de Grammont, 30 (entrance Boulevard des Italiens, 15) in 1880, a studio trading as "Christian" from January 1879 at the latest (La Lanterne, 8.1.1879). Branch studio in Le Havre, 1881; Paris, Rue des Saints-Pères, in late 1881. On 31.12.1880, jointly with Paris-based photographer Alphonse Liébert (° Tournai, 30.11.1826; + Paris [F], 18.6.1913), Louis Corbassière, known as Christian, applied for a patent to import "a new photographic and graphic printing system, known as the Christian process". Corbassière went bankupt again and his studio in Rue de Grammont was put up for judicial sale on 7.12.1881. By 1885, Corbassière was operating as "Christian" in Paris at Rue des Saints-Pères, 40 (Figaro: Journal non politique, 25.1.1885), where the firm "Christian Corbassière et Cie" was founded on 1.5.1885. Still listed as a photographer at the latter address in 1901.
Locations
1875 ca - 1879 / Liège, Rue du Pont-d'Ile, 4
1877 * - 1879 / Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 12
1877 * - 1879 / Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 12
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#807
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 21.7.2017; SFJ revised 5.4.2019, 26.4.2020, 27.3.2021, 26.10.2021, 2.3.2022 & 25.7.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 22.10.2021, 3.4.2023 & 28.7.2023