The sites in the Provence (France) were exceptionally favored by educated tourists who continued their Grand Tour from Marseilles to the highlights of the Orient. This became a good source of income for photographers who made prints of these sites for albums and portfolios that tourists took back home with them. A. Crespon seems to have been a studio photographer who specialized in portraits and early on also made daguerreotypes, but he also did landscapes and architecture. Both of these images are especially charming with their inclusion of people in the foreground.
