Alphonse Jeanrenaud

Alphonse François Jeanrenaud was born in France sometime before 1835, perhaps 1818.

Jeanrenaud became a French naval officer and later learned photography. He was based primarily in Paris, although traveled extensively.

He joined the Société Française de Photographie in 1855 and became a board member in 1865. He was considered an excellent landscape photographer and exhibited at the SFP's annual salons from 1857-1870. His work included views of Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands (1858), as well as areas of northern France, from Fontainebleau to Normandy.

Jeanrenaud was very interested in the Poitevin carbon process, although he also worked in albumen and salt prints. His negatives were primarily glass wet plate collodion. He died in Paris in November 1895.

Jeanrenaud's work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Snite Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Société Française de Photographie.

He is included in both the George Eastman House and the Auer & Auer databases. He is also featured in Heilbrun & Neagu, Musee D'Orsay: Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la Collection Photographique (1986).

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