Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut

Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, 1854-1856, The Undersigned Photographer as He Was Before 1848, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79860

Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut

Other: Chevalier Dubois de Nehaut
Other: L.P.T. Dubois de Nehaut
Other: le chevalier L.P.T. Dubois de Nehaut

Born: 1799
Died: 1872
Gender: Male
Active: Belgium
 
An amateur photographer from Belgium whose works stretched the boundaries of what were the normal subjects for photographs in the 1850s. He photographed from above at a time when this was far from usual and experimented with photographs taken at different times of the day.
 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) has an album of thirty two of his photographs.

Genealogy of Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut

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