Roger du Manoir
Comte de Bagneux

ArtistFrench, 1827–1888
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Comte de Bagneux
  • Count of Bagneux
Datec. 1853
MediumSalted paper print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (18.4 × 13.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (18.4 × 13.4 cm)
Mount: 10 1/16 × 13 7/16 in. (25.6 × 34.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2019.484
Not on view

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Description


A “gentleman amateur” photographer as well as an avid botanist, hunter, and small-town mayor in Normandy, Roger du Manoir studied photography with Gustave Le Gray and was a founding member of the Société héliographique, the first photographic society. Like others who pursued photography as an avocation rather than a profession, he printed his images for personal use and pleasure rather than for sale; his photographs are thus rare and carefully crafted. Louis Charles Alfred Frotier, Comte de Bagneux, was a wealthy landowner in Normandy and, like du Manoir, mayor of a small town.



Provenance[Ader Nordmann & Dominique, Paris, Photographies, November 7, 2019]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History“L'Album de Roger Comte du Manoir, membre fondateur de la SFP en 1854, images primitives 1853-1857,” Galerie Plaisance, 12 – 18 November, 2002
“Modernisme ou Modernité, les photographes du cercle de Gustave Le Gray,” Petit Palais, Paris, 3 October 2012 – 6 January 2013
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, mount recto, upper left sideways: ALBUM DE // ROGER COMTE DU MANOIR
Inscribed in pencil, mount recto upper right: cte de Bagneux
Blindstamp, mount: BRETON FRERES ET CIE
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: 083/2
Inscribed in pencil, verso, left edge: [illegible, erased]

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