Return to 19th-Century Still Lifes   Alphonse Jeanrenaud - Reliqueries 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.#: 7989 Price: $4,500 Medium: Salt print Mount: on original mount Image Date: 1850c Print Date: 1850c Dimensions: 8-7/8 x 5-5/8 in. (225 x 143 mm) Photo Country: France Photographer Country: France Description: Signed in ink on recto of mount below image. Jeanrenaud's prints are not often signed. Alphonse François Jeanrenaud was born in France sometime before 1835. Jeanrenaud became a French naval officer and later learned photography. He was based primarily in Paris but did go to the Netherlands in 1858. He joined the Societe Francaise de Photographie in 1855 and became a board member in 1865. He was considered an excellent landscape photographer and exhibited at the S.F.P's annual salons from 1857-1870. His work included views of Normandy, Switzerland, Fontainebleau, etc. Jeanreanaud was apparently very interested in the carbon process, although he also worked in albumen and salt prints. His negatives were primarily glass wet plate collodion. He died in Paris in November 1895. Jeanrenaud's work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Snite Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Societe Francaise de Photographie. He is included in both the George Eastman House and the Auer & Auer databases. He is also featured in Heilbrun & Neagu, Musee D'Orsay: Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la Collection Photographique (1986). 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.