{"id":31863,"date":"2025-07-07T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31863"},"modified":"2025-07-06T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:53:17","slug":"proof-of-the-pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/proof-of-the-pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"proof of the pudding &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31865\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/proof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31865\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31865\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/proof-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1837 test portrait of M Huet by Louis Daguerre, \u00a9 \u00c9tudes photographiques, France<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230; is in the eating, or so they say. About two years before announcing the Daguerreotype process, Louise Daguerre tested his process by taking a portrait of M Huet. The reproduction in issue 24-4 is courtesy of and is \u00a9 \u00c9tudes photographiques, France.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait of M Huet as taken by Daguerre is believed to be [1999] the oldest portrait taken by photography. The image was provided by Luis Nadeau who translated the French write-up to English with this pr\u00e9cis, &#8220;In a recent issue of the French review\u00a0<i>Etudes photographiques<\/i>, the oldest\u00a0known portrait photograph has been identified as that taken by the inventor himself,\u00a0Louis Daguerre in 1837. That was two\u00a0years before the official announcement of\u00a0the daguerreotype process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actual article begins, &#8220;According to Andre Gunthert, the daguerreotype\u00a0was found some ten years ago at a flea market by Marc\u00a0Pagneux, an art dealer and one of the most respected\u00a0French dealers of historical photographs. He paid 600\u00a0francs ($240) for the 5.8 x 4.5 cm plate which was\u00a0mounted within a frame bearing the name of Daguerre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;This in itself is not significant as there are a lot of plates\u00a0of this type on the market.\u00a0As a member of the Societ\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de photographie, M. Pagneux asked another member Jacques\u00a0Roquencourt, one of the better known Daguerre specialists in France, to help him examine the plate further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;The frame was opened \u2013 it contained another frame,\u00a0invisible from the outside, bearing an inscription: &#8216;M. Huet \/ 1837&#8217;.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Members enjoyed reading this and all the Jan\/Feb 1999 Journal by viewing the issue 24-4 pdf file on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive. You can read it too, just join the PHSC following the material above and\/or at right titled &#8216;Membership&#8217;. Questions? Email Lilianne at <a href=\"mailto:member@phsc.ca\">member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; is in the eating, or so they say. About two years before announcing the Daguerreotype process, Louise Daguerre tested his process by taking a portrait of M Huet. The reproduction in issue 24-4 is courtesy of and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/proof-of-the-pudding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[22,550,585],"class_list":["post-31863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-daguerre","tag-image","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31866,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31863\/revisions\/31866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}