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Gilles-Louis Chrétien

Other: Gilles Louis Chretien

Born: 1754, 5 February - France, Versailles
Died: 1811, 6 March - France, Paris
Gender: Male
Active: France
 
French musician at the court at Versaille. His significance to photography is his invention of the Physionotrace which was a mechanical device created in the late 18th century for the creation of portraits. Although it was not a chemical process like the Daguerreotype or the calotype it was significant as it involved a mechanistic approach to the creation of images, an ideal tool for an age of science and reason, and was distinct from traditional drawing or painting.

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Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1811 (after), Self-portrait, Physiognotrace, after a drawing by Jean Fouguet, Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., LL/111482
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