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ID: 500037203
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500037203

 

Record Type: Person
Breton, Louis-André (French photographer, optician, and optical instrument maker, active ca. 1839 - ca. 1850)

Note: Louis-André Breton, along with his brother André, was among the first daguerreotypists in Paris in 1839. The Breton brothers manufactured optical instruments as well as instruments for physics, chemistry, and mathematics, at their studio at rue Servandoni 4, Paris. They also operated a shop where they sold instruments and daguerreotypes, at rue du Petit-Bourbon 9.

Names:
Breton, Louis-André (preferred,V,index)
Louis-André Breton (V,display)

Nationalities:
French (preferred)
Parisian

Roles:
instrument maker (preferred)
optician
photographer

Gender: male

Events:
active:   ca. 1839 - ca. 1850  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
partner in ....  Breton Frères  from ca. 1839-1840s
..................  (French photography studio and optical instrument makers, active 19th century) [500041220]
sibling of ....  Breton, André  
..................  (French daguerreotypist and optical instrument maker, active ca. 1840) [500006225]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Breton, Louis-André (I)

Biographies:
(French photographer, optician, and optical instrument maker, active ca. 1839 - ca. 1850) ..... [VP Preferred]
(French photographer, optician and optical instrument maker; active Paris (France), ca. 1839-1840s) ..... [CCA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Breton, Louis-André ........ [CCA Preferred]
.........................................  CCA Photographers' Vertical Files (n.d.)
Louis-André Breton ........ [CCA]
.......................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........ [CCA]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  CCA Photographers' Vertical Files (n.d.)
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Paris et le Daguerréotype (1989) 27, 63-65
....................  Photography and Architecture 225
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... CCA Photographers' Vertical Files (n.d.)
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