Excursions Daguerriennes. Vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe

Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours

1840s · Etchings and aquatints · Photographs

This print played an important role in popularizing the notion of the artist-daguerreotypist as trustworthy eyewitness. In March 1840, while Goupil-Fesquet and his teacher, Horace Vernet, were on a daguerreotype tour of Egypt and the Levant, a fake story circulated in the Parisian press claiming that Vernet had gained access to Muhammad ‘Ali’s harem. With this print and the accompanying text, Goupil-Fesquet aimed to prove, as "both ocular witness and daguerreotype operator," that they had seen only the guarded entrance.

Artist

Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours

Date

1840s

Medium

Etchings and aquatints

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938