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Philippon, Cyprien Dominique
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Courcemain [Marne, F], 1840 - Versailles [Yvelines, F], 1891
Activity
1885 Rochefort (views of)
° 12.5.1840; + 10.11.1891. Studio photographer operating in Versailles [F] throughout the 1870s and 1880s. He accompanied the geographer and ethnologist Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858 - 1924) to Belgium in the summer of 1885 to photograph the places where the Prince had lived with his parents from 1868 to 1871. A resulting two-volume album "Les Ardennes en 1885" was constituted, comprising 71 albumen prints, of which 41 cover Rochefort, while others feature locations such as the "Grottes de Han" and Orval. The "Bibliothèque nationale de France" possesses a copy. In 1886 Bonaparte donated to the "Société archéologique de Namur" five prints measuring 23 x 17 cm, mounted on card and bearing the Prince’s dry stamp.
° 12.5.1840; + 10.11.1891. Studio photographer operating in Versailles [F] throughout the 1870s and 1880s. He accompanied the geographer and ethnologist Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858 - 1924) to Belgium in the summer of 1885 to photograph the places where the Prince had lived with his parents from 1868 to 1871. A resulting two-volume album "Les Ardennes en 1885" was constituted, comprising 71 albumen prints, of which 41 cover Rochefort, while others feature locations such as the "Grottes de Han" and Orval. The "Bibliothèque nationale de France" possesses a copy. In 1886 Bonaparte donated to the "Société archéologique de Namur" five prints measuring 23 x 17 cm, mounted on card and bearing the Prince’s dry stamp.
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1885 Rochefort (views of)
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Bibliography/Webography
WEBER, Jean-Pol. "Nouveau regard sur une photographie rochefortoise prise par Cyprien Philippon en 1885", Cercle Culturel et Historique de Rochefort, Cahier no. 57, 2023, pp. 181-183.
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3355
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Dates of creation/revision
MCC revised 22.7.2019; SFJ revised 2.6.2024 based on information supplied by Jean-Pol Weber