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Aguado, Olympe
(1827-1894)Studio portrait of a woman

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Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Studio portrait of a young woman. 1850s. Salted paper print, mounted to thin card. 22,5 x 16,5 cm (mount 37,5 x 30,5 cm). Annotated “par M. Aguado” in pencil in the lower margin of the mount.

Count Olympe-Clément-Auguste-Alexandre Aguado de las Marismas, was a Franco-Spanish photographer and socialite active primarily in the 1850s and 1860s, and among several early practitioners trained by Gustave Le Gray. Working from his studio on the Place Vendôme in Paris, he quickly moved beyond the daguerreotype, experimenting with paper negatives and collodion on glass, and became a founding member of the Société française de photographie in 1854. Born into a wealthy Spanish banking family, Aguado devoted considerable resources to photography, producing landscapes, portraits, and staged tableaux vivants that often playfully reflect the social conventions of the Second Empire.


Literatur: Sylvain Morand, ed. Olympe Aguado (1827-1894): Photographe. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg, 1997.