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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1841 (probably), Self-portrait of Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Daguerreotype, Christie's - New York, LL/39310
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

Other: Joseph Pholbert Girault de Parangey
Other: Giraud de Prangey

Born: 1804 - France, Haute-Marne, Langres
Died: 1892 - France, Haute-Marne, Langres
Gender: Male
Active: France / Italy / Greece / Egypt / Turkey / Syria / Asia Minor / Palestine
 
In 1842 he set off on a tour of Italy, Greece and the Middle East taking between 800 and 900 daguerreotypes of ancient monuments.

Girault de Prangey (1804-1892): dessins, peintures, photographies, études historiques, (Langres: Musées de Langres/D. Guéniot, 1998) [Exhibition catalogue]

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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840, Self portrait (?) of Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey [Autoportrait présumé], Daguerreotype, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie (BnF), LL/67097
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1841 (probably), Self-portrait of Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Daguerreotype, Christie's - New York, LL/39310
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1860 (ca), Self-Portrait in the Garden, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/107420
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (21 October 1804 - 7 December 1892) was a French scholar and draughtsman whose use of photography while he was active in the Middle East pursuing archaeology and studying ancient architecture has made him recognized as an important early photographer. His daguerreotypes are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Palestine, Italy, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. After his death in 1892, his carefully stored photographs were discovered in the attic of his estate in the 1920s and they only became known as important works eighty years later.
 

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