3-047-478 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Self-portrait with a daguerreotype of Geneva, about 1847. Additional Info: For this self-portrait, a somewhat wearied Jean-Gabriel Eynard propped his elbow on a table, perhaps to steady himself. Clearly proud of his abilities as a daguerreotypist, he leaned one half of one of his panoramas of Geneva against his top hat. The color applied to his face and hands and the flower in his buttonhole was meant to heighten the appearance of reality and is unusual in Eynard's daguerreotypes.