Louis-Remy Robert 1810-1882
Henriette Robert, the photographer's daughter, c.1849
Lightly waxed salt print from paper neg
19.2 x 13.5 cms
7 8/16 x 5 5/16 ins
7 8/16 x 5 5/16 ins
2017
On original mount, inscribed Henriette robert - von Marcke Robert's earliest known photographs are his portraits. These are often small in contrast to his subsequent landscapes. Robert's photographs of his...
On original mount, inscribed Henriette robert - von Marcke
Robert's earliest known photographs are his portraits. These are often small in contrast to his subsequent landscapes.
Robert's photographs of his daughter, Henriette (b. 1834) are exceptional in early photography for their warmth, intimacy and naturalness. In contrast to the sharpness of daguerreotype portraits, Robert's calotype portraits are shadowy and atmospheric.
'Sometimes Robert's portraits are animated by a sense of excitement about the photograph as a cooperative project - especially in the photographs of Henriette, an irrepressibly lively model who clearly enjoyed taking part in her father's photographic activities. In several images, she beams at the viewer - her father - without hesitation or embarrassment. ' (Laurie Dahlberg, 'The Portraits of Louis Robert' in Louis Robert. L'alchimie des images, 1999).
The present work may be compared to a salt print of the same subject in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Their print is dated c.1850. However, Henriette appears to be younger in the present work suggesting a date of c.1849, if not earlier. This would be consistent with her date of birth of 1834.
Robert's earliest known photographs are his portraits. These are often small in contrast to his subsequent landscapes.
Robert's photographs of his daughter, Henriette (b. 1834) are exceptional in early photography for their warmth, intimacy and naturalness. In contrast to the sharpness of daguerreotype portraits, Robert's calotype portraits are shadowy and atmospheric.
'Sometimes Robert's portraits are animated by a sense of excitement about the photograph as a cooperative project - especially in the photographs of Henriette, an irrepressibly lively model who clearly enjoyed taking part in her father's photographic activities. In several images, she beams at the viewer - her father - without hesitation or embarrassment. ' (Laurie Dahlberg, 'The Portraits of Louis Robert' in Louis Robert. L'alchimie des images, 1999).
The present work may be compared to a salt print of the same subject in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Their print is dated c.1850. However, Henriette appears to be younger in the present work suggesting a date of c.1849, if not earlier. This would be consistent with her date of birth of 1834.
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