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Robert, Emile
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Melun [Seine-et-Marne, F], 1830 - Dornecy [Nièvre, F], 1890
Activity
1866 * - 1867 Bruxelles, Rue Fossé aux Loups, 36
Emile Adolphe, ° 25.5.1830; + 27.8.1890. School teacher, photographer and painter; political activist and refugee after Napoleon III's coup of December 1851. Studio listed as a branch of his firm in Paris [F], Rue Grange Batelière, 12. Indeed, at this address, where Delabarre operated from 1866 until 1871, Emile's brother Rodolphe Ernest Robert (° Melun [Seine-et-Marne, F], 1833) worked for a while after arriving from Lille [F], Rue Impériale, on 1.7.1866.
The following year an advertisement appeared: "Photo-colour. The studio of A. Delabarre [...] has just reached an agreement with Emile-Robert, the painter-photographer and inventor of "photo-colour". This new process produces durable prints and portraits painted with a rare perfection at the same price, so to speak, as black-and-white photographs. You can judge the extraordinary results achieved by this invention by coming and seeing the prints displayed at "Photographie Parisienne", 36, Rue Fossé aux Loups" (La Belgique, 19.8.1867 passim until 31.12.1867; also Journal de Bruxelles, 22.11.1867). In 1867, Emile Robert was awarded a gold medal by the "Société des sciences industrielles, arts et belles-lettres de Paris" for his process for permanently fixing colours. No further evidence of his process being commercialised in Brussels has been found. The Paris firm went bankrupt in March 1870, after which Robert continued to operate in various French locations until his death.
Emile Adolphe, ° 25.5.1830; + 27.8.1890. School teacher, photographer and painter; political activist and refugee after Napoleon III's coup of December 1851. Studio listed as a branch of his firm in Paris [F], Rue Grange Batelière, 12. Indeed, at this address, where Delabarre operated from 1866 until 1871, Emile's brother Rodolphe Ernest Robert (° Melun [Seine-et-Marne, F], 1833) worked for a while after arriving from Lille [F], Rue Impériale, on 1.7.1866.
The following year an advertisement appeared: "Photo-colour. The studio of A. Delabarre [...] has just reached an agreement with Emile-Robert, the painter-photographer and inventor of "photo-colour". This new process produces durable prints and portraits painted with a rare perfection at the same price, so to speak, as black-and-white photographs. You can judge the extraordinary results achieved by this invention by coming and seeing the prints displayed at "Photographie Parisienne", 36, Rue Fossé aux Loups" (La Belgique, 19.8.1867 passim until 31.12.1867; also Journal de Bruxelles, 22.11.1867). In 1867, Emile Robert was awarded a gold medal by the "Société des sciences industrielles, arts et belles-lettres de Paris" for his process for permanently fixing colours. No further evidence of his process being commercialised in Brussels has been found. The Paris firm went bankrupt in March 1870, after which Robert continued to operate in various French locations until his death.
Locations
1866 * - 1867 Bruxelles, Rue Fossé aux Loups, 36
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Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Pierre Baudrier & François Gaudin, "ROBERT Émile, Adolphe", accessed on 19.10.2022 at: https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article195791
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3632
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 8.5.2018; SFJ revised 9.6.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 20.10.2022 based on information supplied by Eric Bertin (email dated 10.10.2022)