Jules Richard

The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Employment is recorded with Jules Richard Instruments. Works named in the authority record are Vérascope. Work by Jules Richard is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum Zutphen, Musée d'Orsay, Vienna Technical Museum and Het Scheepvaartmuseum. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Jules Richard • Born — 19 December 1848 • Died — 18 June 1930 • Known for — Verascope and Glyphoscope stereographic cameras • Father — Félix Richard

Richard's father Félix Richard was an instrument maker in Paris; his uncle was the electrical instrument maker Paul-Gustave Froment. After training in his father's workshop, he worked outside the family company in the 1870s, manufacturing telegraphy equipment. Following his father's death in 1876, he returned to the family business in 1877, working in partnership with his younger brother Max starting in 1882. During the 1880s they built a reputation for manufacturing scientific barometers, and other environmental recording devices such as anemometers, pyrometers, aneroid barographs and dynamometers. Until 1891 when they split up, they were known as the Richard Frères; the 'RF' monogram persisted as the company's symbol. From 1893 the company produced stereoscopic cameras. After 1891 the company was named Jules Richard.

• Illustration — Nude Study, 1900s. • Illustration — The Atrium; The Desbonnet Method, c.1912. • Illustration — Female nude, c. 1900–1920. • Illustration — Glyphoscope advertisement, 8 July 1916 • Illustration — Portable stereoscope viewer, c. 1910–1930. • Illustration — Gyphoscope stereographic image of the St Michel Quay and Bridge, Paris, 27 February 1906. • Illustration — Nude women photographed by Jules Richard, c. 1900–1920. • Illustration — Stereographic image of the Grand Staircase in the Grand Palais, Paris, c. 1900.

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