Auguste Mestral
Illustration — Auguste Mestral in a photographic portrait (1856) by Gustave Le Gray Auguste Mestral (1812–1884), also known as O. Mestral, was a French photographer. He travelled with fellow photographers Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, and Gustave Le Gray in the summer of 1851 to photograph architectural monuments in France at the request of the Commission des Monuments Historiques.
Also recorded as O. Mestral · Therese Jean Baptiste Augustin Mestral
Auguste Mestral
Gustave Le Gray · etudesphotographiques.revues.org · Public domain
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- 1812 · Rans.
- Died
- 1884 · Rans.
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- France
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- photographer
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- French
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Illustration — Auguste Mestral in a photographic portrait (1856) by Gustave Le Gray Auguste Mestral (1812–1884), also known as O. Mestral, was a French photographer. He travelled with fellow photographers Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, and Gustave Le Gray in the summer of 1851 to photograph architectural monuments in France at the request of the Commission des Monuments Historiques.
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• Illustration — Sculpture of Virgin and Child (circa 1851), Notre-Dame de Paris • Illustration — Sculpture of Angel at Sainte-Chapelle, Paris (circa 1851) • Illustration — Angel of the Passion (1853), Sainte-Chapelle, Paris • Illustration — Cathédrale St-Pierre à Angoulême (1851) credited to Auguste Mestral and Gustave Le Gray
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- 1.Jean-Marie Voignier. Mestral?. Open Edition Journals-Études photographiques. 2004.
- 2.Anne de Modenard. La Mission héliographique: Cinq photographes parcourent la France en 1851. Monum, Éditions du patrimoine, Parigi. 2002.
- 3.Augute Mestral - Works in the Collection. SFMOMA.
- 4.Steven Jacobs. Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. John Hannavy. 2008.
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