Prints that have vanished to this date

17

Image : A set table (still life) 1823-1825 according to A. Davanne and Eugene Niépce,Nicephore’s grand-son.1832 according to J.L.Marignier.
Type : Still life made with a camera obscura
Base : Glass plate
Technique : Physautotype (according to J.L. Marignier )
Dimensions : 7 x 11,7 cm (according to J.L.Marignier )
Location : This plate vanished from French Photographic Society collections in the early 20th century.
Origin : Gift from Eugene Niépce to A.Davanne who donated it to the SFP the 25th november 1891.
Bibliography : BSFPg(146),; BSFPh(423) ; AD ; BSFPj(59) ; GPa(161); PJa(31) ; PJb(23,143) ; BL ; JLM.




18

Image : The Cardinal of Amboise (1826)
Type : Reproduction of a drawing by contact.
Base : Tin ?
Technique : Etching .
Dimensions : Unknown .
Location : Unknown today.
Origin : F. Lemaitre’s collections. Articles published in three bulletins of the S.F.P. mentioned an engraving representing the Cardinal of Amboise (an etching on tin,Bulletin of 1856 ) This plate is not referenced in any collection.
Bibliography : BSFPb(185) ; BSFPa(41) ; BSFPc(252) ; CSFP(1) ; CBN(75b).


19

Image : Landscape from an engraving by Claude Le Lorrain ( around 1826) .
Type : Reproduction of a drawing by contact
Base : ?
Technique : ?
Dimensions : ?
Location : Unknown today
Origin : Private collection of Joseph Ellis of Brighton in 1862.
Bibliography : RH(30n°5) ; PN(336) ; GPa(162) ; CBN573b)


20

Image : Christ bearing the cross (no date)
Type : Reproduction of a drawing by contact
Base : ?
Technique : ?
Dimensions : Unknown
Location : Unknown today
Origin : Coll. Laguiche.
Bibliography : CRAS(207) ; GPa(162).


21

Image : Christ bearing the Cross ( no date)
Type : Reproduction of a drawing by contact
Base: ?
Technique : ?
Dimensions : Unknown.
Location : Unknown today
Origin : Charles Chevalier > Arago > Académie des Sciences > Archives of the Institute in 1839
Bibliography : AC(20) ; GPa(161)


22

Image : Maiden spinning with her distaff
Type : Reproduction of a drawing by contact
Base : probably tin.
Technique : Etching.
Dimensions : ?
Location : Unknown.
Origin : Colonel David Niepce,
Bibliography : VF(118) ; EC (80) ; GPb(37)


• According “La Lumiere“ a newspaper on march the 28th 1853, E .Chevreul left at the desk of the Sciences Academy on the 23d same month, "two etched tin plates by Nicephore Niépce that had been sent by the famous inventor "from Chalon-sur-Saone on February 2nd 1827" and printed since by M.Lemaitre…." As a matter of fact Niépce had sent five tin plates to the parisian engraver,and was explaining : "The biggest of the five is a copy of an engraving showing the Virgin,the child Jesus and St.Joseph. The four others, that are smaller are a double copy of a portrait and a landscape."The portrait was the Cardinal of Amboise.These five plates were sent back by Leemaitre on the 5th of march.How two of these plates ended up in Chevreul’s hands ? What did happen to them ?