Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (born October 21, 1804 in Langres , † December 7, 1892 in Courcelles-Val-d'Esnoms , today: Le Val-d'Esnoms) was a French graphic artist, photographer and orientalist. He is important because of his travels and observations in the Mediterranean area; his daguerreotypes are the first known photographs of important places and monuments in Greece , the Levant and Egypt .
Life
Girault de Prangey studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris together with his friend and future painter Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856). The two founded the first museum in Langres in 1842 in the former monastery church of St Didier, which has been used as a granary since the revolution and is still part of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Langres. Perhaps at Ziegler's suggestion, Girault de Prangey got to know the daguerreotype as early as 1841 , either through Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre personally or through Hippolyte Bayard .
In the same year his Essai sur l'Architecture des Arabes et des Mores en Espagne, en Sicile, et en Barbarie , in which, among other things, he wrote thanks to the Reading of the Arabic inscriptions for the first time, which Viollet-le-Duc had been able to assign to the Norman kings as commissioning palaces in Palermo five years earlier .
In 1842 Girault de Prangey embarked on a journey to the eastern Mediterranean, which took two years via Rome and Athens to Istanbul, Alexandria, Cairo, Baalbek and Jerusalem. Everywhere he made intensive use of the new technique of the daguerreotype and made the first photographic portrait of the Pope in Rome, which was followed by the first photographs of important ancient and medieval sites in the eastern Mediterranean. After his return he processed his travels in publications elaborately illustrated with lithographs, albeit in very small editions.
However, he did not publish the more than 900 photographs and never exhibited them in his life. They remained undiscovered even after his death and were opened up for the history of photography through adventurous methods very late.
plant
- Monuments arabes et moresques de Cordoue, Séville et Grenade, dessinés et mesurés en 1832 et 1833 , Paris 1937 (?)
- Essai sur l'Architecture des Arabes et des Mores en Espagne, en Sicile, et en Barbarie , Paris 1841.
- Monuments arabes d'Égypte, de Syrie, et d'Asie mineure , Lemercier et Firmin Didot pour l'auteur, Paris 1846.
- Monuments et paysage de l'Orient , Paris 1851.
literature
- Christoph Mauron u. a .: Miroir d'argent: Daguerréotypes de Girault de Prangey . Slatkine, Geneva 2008, ISBN 978-2-8321-0332-6 .
- Frédéric Hitzel, Sophie Makariou: Girault de Prangey . In: François Pouillon (ed.) Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française . Éditions Karthala, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-84586-802-1 , pp. 446-448.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://loisirs.lagrue.ch/uploads/archives/2002/07.06.02/article1.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Girault de Prangey, Joseph-Philibert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Girault de Prangey, Philippe-Joseph; Girault de Prangey, Philibert-Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French graphic artist, photographer and orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langres |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1892 |
| Place of death | Courcelles-Val-d'Esnoms |