Printed: 2023-06-03
Levaque, Jérôme
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Grande Photographie Américaine (in Brussels)
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Namur, 1852 - ?, ?
Activity
1876 ca - 1878 / Liège, Rue Léopold au Pont des Arches
Predecessor: Levaque A.
Jean Baptiste Jérôme, ° 24.12.1852. Son of Hubert and younger brother of Amand and Edmond.
1878 * - 1907 / Bruxelles, Rue Neuve, 72<78-90> renumbered 90<90-93>, then 20<92-07>
Announced the transfer of "Photographie Levaque" from Liège to this address "under the name Jérôme Levaque" at the end of May 1878 (La Meuse, 31.5.1878). Officially arrived at this address from Liège on 12.7.1878. Jérôme and Edmond appear to have operated in tandem well into the 1880s. On CV back, c. 1878, for studio in Lille [F], Grande Place, 28, "Grande Photographie Américaine" and "J. Levaque, Bruxelles"; others, in the early 1880s, bear initial "E" or "J" on recto. Co-existed with studio in Paris [F], Rue Vivienne, 2 in 1881 trading as "Grande Photographie Américaine / E. Levaque"; see entry for Edmond Levaque. Stay in Amsterdam [NL] from 3.6.1881 to 7.8.1882. Branch in The Hague [NL], Willemstraat, 63 during this period. Voignier records the Lille studio (Levaque, no initial) as operating at Grande Place, 24 then 12 from about 1882 to 1887. Initial "G. in the directory in 1890 and 1891. Moved to no. 20 on 26.11.1892. Listed simultaneously at no. 90 and 20 in 1893-1894, and at no. 92 and 20 in 1895. Left for Tilff on 21.5.1907 and returned to Brussels in 1911 when he was registered as a person of independent means.
1876 - 1887 ca Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 81
Predecessor: Levaque Hubert
CV dated June 1876. Coexisted with the Brussels studio.
Predecessor: Levaque A.
Jean Baptiste Jérôme, ° 24.12.1852. Son of Hubert and younger brother of Amand and Edmond.
1878 * - 1907 / Bruxelles, Rue Neuve, 72<78-90> renumbered 90<90-93>, then 20<92-07>
Announced the transfer of "Photographie Levaque" from Liège to this address "under the name Jérôme Levaque" at the end of May 1878 (La Meuse, 31.5.1878). Officially arrived at this address from Liège on 12.7.1878. Jérôme and Edmond appear to have operated in tandem well into the 1880s. On CV back, c. 1878, for studio in Lille [F], Grande Place, 28, "Grande Photographie Américaine" and "J. Levaque, Bruxelles"; others, in the early 1880s, bear initial "E" or "J" on recto. Co-existed with studio in Paris [F], Rue Vivienne, 2 in 1881 trading as "Grande Photographie Américaine / E. Levaque"; see entry for Edmond Levaque. Stay in Amsterdam [NL] from 3.6.1881 to 7.8.1882. Branch in The Hague [NL], Willemstraat, 63 during this period. Voignier records the Lille studio (Levaque, no initial) as operating at Grande Place, 24 then 12 from about 1882 to 1887. Initial "G. in the directory in 1890 and 1891. Moved to no. 20 on 26.11.1892. Listed simultaneously at no. 90 and 20 in 1893-1894, and at no. 92 and 20 in 1895. Left for Tilff on 21.5.1907 and returned to Brussels in 1911 when he was registered as a person of independent means.
1876 - 1887 ca Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 81
Predecessor: Levaque Hubert
CV dated June 1876. Coexisted with the Brussels studio.
Locations
1876 ca - 1878 / Liège, Rue Léopold au Pont des Arches
1878 * - 1907 / Bruxelles, Rue Neuve, 72<78-90> renumbered 90<90-93>, then 20<92-07>
1876 - 1887 ca Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 81
1878 * - 1907 / Bruxelles, Rue Neuve, 72<78-90> renumbered 90<90-93>, then 20<92-07>
1876 - 1887 ca Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 81
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1880; Brussels, "Exposition Internationale de la Société Scientifique", 1893 (gold medal).
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Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2757
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 7.8.2017, 31.1.2018, 13.2.2018 & 3.12.2018; MD revised 5.6.2020, 26.7.2021 & 12.8.2021; SFJ revised 16.11.2021 & 13.3.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght