20-2, 018-03, 1880s, Cabinet Card, François Pâris (1806-1893) Vice Admiral

You are bidding on an original Antique 1880's Cabinet Card Photograph, François Edmond Pâris (1806-1893) French Vice Admiral, about 80 years old.

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François Edmond Pâris, 2 March 1806 – 8 April 1893) was a French naval officer of the 19th century. As a vice-admiral, he is known for his work in shipbuilding in the period of development of steam propulsion, for his role in the organization of the National Maritime Museum, and for his publications on shipbuilding around the world. He is also considered the father of nautical ethnography.

François Edmond Pâris was born in Paris on 2 March 1806.

In 1820 Paris was appointed a first-class student.

From 1820 to 1822 he studied at the Royal College of Angoulême.

From 1822 to 1826 he received practical training and made his first embarkations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

In 1822, he took drawing lessons with the marine painter Gilbert, a pupil of Pierre Ozanne.

From 1826 to 1829, he took part in the circumnavigation of Dumont d'Urville's corvette Astrolabe during the expedition to explore Oceania and search for the expedition commanded by Lapérouse.

From 1829 to 1832, he took part in a scientific expedition aboard the corvette La Favorite, which took him along East Africa, India, China, Indochina, New Zealand, and South America.

In 1832 he was assigned to the Depot of Naval Charts and Plans to prepare for the publication of the cartographic surveys made aboard the Favorite. He was promoted lieutenant the same year and was sent at his own request to England to study the use of the steam engine in naval propulsion.

He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1833.

In 1837, he joined the frigate Artemisia on a third voyage of exploration, which lasted until 1840 and brought him to India. In Pondicherry, during a visit to a foundry, he lost his left forearm. The experience gained since his first embarkations provided him with the materials for his seminal work, on the shipbuilding of non-European peoples, published in 1841.

He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1839.

In 1840 he was assigned to the Depot of Naval Maps and Plans to assist Commander Laplace in exploiting the results of the voyage of the Artemise. That same year, he was promoted to lieutenant-commander.

He was promoted to captain (second class) in 1846. He then commanded the royal yacht Le Comte d'Eu, built in Le Havre by Augustin Normand, until 1847.

In 1853 he was again posted to the Depot of Charts and Plans and promoted captain first class.

During the Crimean War, Paris became in charge of the naval division of the Dnieper after the Battle of Kinburn (1855).

In 1855, he was awarded the "Cross of Commander of the Legion of Honour". He boarded the steam corvette Le Vautour.

In 1856, he took command of the mixed frigate L'Audacieuse, built according to the plans of Henri Dupuy de Lôme.

He made another voyage to England in 1857 to oversee the construction of the transatlantic steamer SS Great Eastern.

In 1858, Paris was promoted to rear-admiral.

In 1862, he was appointed a member of the jury for the London World's Fair.

In 1863, he became a member of the Academy of Sciences and was appointed to the board of the Geographical Society. He also became a member of the Lighthouse Commission.

In 1864, Pâris was promoted to vice-admiral and became director of the Depot of Naval Charts and Plans. He was elected a member of the Bureau des Longitudes. He was then entrusted with the direction of the Naval Museum at the Louvre, which became the National Maritime Museum, which he directed until his death in 1893. The Musée National de la Marine holds a collection of about 450 plans, tracings and preparatory drawings made by Paris.

In 1875 he was appointed vice-president of the Academy of Sciences and in 1876 he became its president.

In 1880, he was elevated to the rank of "Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour" and became a member of the Council of the Order.

François Edmond Pâris died in Paris on 8 April 1893. He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (67th division).(ref. Wikipedia)
 
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Photographer: A. Liebert, 6, Rue de Londres, Paris
 

Card size: 4.25" x 6.5". #20-2, 018-03
 

The Cabinet Card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4+1⁄4 by 6+1⁄2 inches).

The carte de visite was displaced by the larger cabinet card in the 1880s. In the early 1860s, both types of photographs were essentially the same in process and design. Both were most often albumen prints, the primary difference being the cabinet card was larger and usually included extensive logos and information on the reverse side of the card to advertise the photographer’s services. However, later into its popularity, other types of papers began to replace the albumen process. Despite the similarity, the cabinet card format was initially used for landscape views before it was adopted for portraiture.

Some cabinet card images from the 1890s have the appearance of a black-and-white photograph in contrast to the distinctive sepia toning notable in the albumen print process. These photographs have a neutral image tone and were most likely produced on a matte collodion, gelatin or gelatin bromide paper.

Sometimes images from this period can be identified by a greenish cast. Gelatin papers were introduced in the 1870s and started gaining acceptance in the 1880s and 1890s as the gelatin bromide papers became popular. Matte collodion was used in the same period. A true black-and-white image on a cabinet card is likely to have been produced in the 1890s or after 1900. The last cabinet cards were produced in the 1920s, even as late as 1924.

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