Return to Mid-19th-century to Contemporary Landscape Photography   Andre Giroux - La Grenouillere Croissy Bougival Full Size Contact: Alex Novak and Marthe Smith Email: info@vintageworks.net Phone: +1-215-822-5662 Company: Contemporary Works / Vintage Works, Ltd. Company: 258 Inverness Circle Company: Chalfont, PA   18914   USA URL: http://www.vintageworks.net Ref.#: 4714 Price: $20,000 Medium: Salt print from paper negative Mount: unmounted Image Date: 1850s Print Date: 1850s Dimensions: 13-1/4 x 11 in. (337 x 279 mm) Photo Country: France Photographer Country: France Description: "La Grenouillere Croissy Bougival 1858. Les bain froids dans l'ile de Bougival tenus par le passeur et sa femme." Some light marks in the sky from the negative, but otherwise a magical print of extreme beauty. The same light marks in the sky have appeared in other Giroux images of this same period. Bougival, which was just outside of Paris, was where many of the impressionist painters went to paint, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who painted Le Bal a Bougival in 1883. This image was probably done as an artist's study for Giroux himself, who was a painter of some note. André Giroux was the son of the man who made the camera equipment for the inventor of photography, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. With this auspicious birthright, Giroux moved easily from a successful career in painting to photography, maintaining a painterly eye and style in his photographic work. He specialized in landscapes, retouching his negatives to achieve more atmospheric effects in his photographs. He painted and scratched directly on both paper and glass negatives in an attempt to obliterate photography's mechanical look. Giroux's technique, creating a drawing upon glass that is then used as a negative to make a photographic print, is called cliché-verre. Shipping and insurance costs will be added to the price and must be paid for by the buyer. Pennsylvania and New York buyers must pay appropriate sales tax. International clients are responsible for their VAT and other custom's oriented charges.