Numa Blanc

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Numa Prosper Blanc de Labarthe (born February 28, 1816 in Millau , † February 9, 1897 in Pau ) was a French draftsman , painter and photographer .

Life

Numa Prosper Blanc de Labarthe was born on February 28, 1816 in Millau in the south of France. First he tried his hand at drawing and miniature painter from the mid-1840s. From 1854 he ran a photo studio in Paris , first in Rue Richelieu, 60, then on Boulevard des Italiens , 29 under the name Numa Blanc & Cie. He was married to the soprano Madame Numa Blanc. In the 1860s he became the preferred portrait photographer of writers, musicians, painters and the nobility. Numa Blanc became Wilhelm I's court photographer as early as the early 1860s . From 1863 to 1866 he ran a branch in the Hotel Stephanienbad in Baden-Baden during the summer months . He had other branch studios in Nice , Cannes , Aix-les-Bains and Pau in the 1870s . The wife took on engagements in Baden-Baden and Nice. In 1866 he succeeded Disdéri and preceded Nadar (1879) as a photographer at the Paris Opera. Rossini gave his photos to friends and visitors. In 1867 Numa Blanc was the official photographer of the Paris World Exhibition and ran a gallery on the exhibition grounds.

In Baden-Baden in particular, Numa Blanc also focused on high-quality city and building views, interiors, as well as landscape and genre shots from the Black Forest. In addition, small photographs in CDV format and stereo cards were made as simple memorabilia. The branch atelier in Baden-Baden was taken over and continued by Wacquez et Radiguet in 1866/67 . In 1869 Numa Blanc made an association with the photographer Langerock in Paris, to whom he sold the studio there in 1875. The son André François Blanc de Labarthe (1849–1922) took over the business from Langerock (with the Langerock brand , Successeur de Numa Blanc ), which he renamed Numa Blanc Fils with branches in Aix-les-Bains, Nice, Cannes ( with the brand Villa Numa Blanc , built in 1895), Monte-Carlo , Scarborough and Pau. Since the name Numa Blanc was used as a brand even after 1875, the recordings of father and son, as well as their employees and successors, are often confused. The son also switched to painting from 1879 and signed Numa Blanc.

Numa Blanc de Labarthe received medals at the world exhibitions of Paris (1855) , London (1862) and Vienna (1873) . Numa Blanc died in Pau on February 9, 1897.

Portrait shots

  • Franz Listz, Carte de Visite around 1860

  • Joseph Antone Couderc, Carte de Visite around 1860

  • Mr. J. Lowe, Carte de Visite around 1860

  • Portrait of a woman, Carte de Visite before 1863

  • Male portrait, carte de visite before 1863

Baden-Baden and the surrounding area, 1863

  • Vue de Bade

  • Pump room

  • Hotel Cour de Bade

  • Théâtre

  • Allée de Lichtenthal

  • Vieux château vue des rochers

  • Entrée du vieux château

  • Sortie du vieux château

  • Eberstein Castle

  • Foret noire, probably Antogast in the Renchtal

  • Foret noire, Antogast in the Renchtal

  • Foret noire, Antogast in the Renchtal

  • Lierbachtal

  • Waterfalls All Saints Day

  • All Saints monastery ruins

Publications

  • Numa Blanc: Nouveaux salons de Bade . Twelve albumen prints of interiors from Baden-Baden in a portfolio from around 1864.
  • Numa Blanc et al .: Portraits of members of the upper classes in Baden-Baden, St. Petersburg and Paris around 1865.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Henze-Döhring (ed.): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Letters and Diaries, Volume 8, 1860-1864, De Gruyter, Note 22 on p. 813.

literature

  • Elizabeth Anne McCauley: AAE Disdéri and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph , New Haven / Londres. Yale publications in the history of art, 31, New Haven, 1985
  • Ulrich Pohlmann, Dietmar Siegert (ed.): Exhib.cat. Between Biedermeier and Wilhelminian style - Germany in early photographs 1840-1890 from the Siegert Collection , Verlag Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Blanc, Numa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Labarthe, Numa Prosper Blanc de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French draftsman, painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Millau
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1897
Place of death Pau