20-2, 022-06, 1890s, Cabinet Card, Alfred Giard (1846-1908) French Zoologist For Sale

20-2, 022-06, 1890s, Cabinet Card, Alfred Giard (1846-1908) French Zoologist 20-2, 022-06, 1890s, Cabinet Card, Alfred Giard (1846-1908) French Zoologist

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Description You are offerding on an original Antique 1890\'s Cabinet Card Photograph, Alfred Giard (1846-1908) French Zoologist, about 50 years old.

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More Info:
Alfred Mathieu Giard (8 August 1846 – 8 August 1908) was a French zoologist (member of the French Academy of Sciences and pioneer promoter of atomism) and politician.

Born into a cultured middle-class family, he was the son of a grocery merchant and the grandson of an infantry captain. He was very young and passionate about the study of insects.

From 1873 to 1882, he was substitute professor of natural history at the Faculty of Sciences of Lille under Camille Dareste de la Chavanne and taught at the Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille). From 1875 to 1882, Giard also taught at the School of Pharmacy in Lille. In 1874, he created his private laboratory where he taught marine biology, from which the Wimereux Marine Station emerged. Among his pupils were Jules Bonnier, Charles Barrois, Jules Henri Barrois, Louis Dollo and Paul Hallez, who succeeded him in teaching at the Institut industriel du Nord before obtaining a chair in Zoology from the Faculty of Lille.

In 1909, Félix Le Dantec (1869-1917) published a biographical note on the life and work of Alfred Giard under the title Alfred Giard (1846-1908) and his work (P. Klincksieck, Paris, 1909). His works were collected in 1911 and 1913 by his friends and students and published in Paris by the Laboratory for the Evolution of Organized Beings that he had helped to create.

In July 2008, the Laboratoire d\'Océanologie et de Géosciences de Wimereux (CNRS, Université de Lille 1 and Université du Littoral) organized a symposium to celebrate the centenary of Alfred Giard\'s death. (ref. Wikipedia)

 
Back has Photographer Information.
 
Photographer: Eug. Pirou, 5 Bard St, Germain, Paris
 

Card size: 4.25\" x 6.5\". #20-2, 022-06
 

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.

Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de visite as the most popular form of portraiture. The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from across the room when typically displayed on a cabinet, which is probably why they became known as such in the vernacular. However, when the renowned Civil War photographer Mathew Brady first started offering them to his clientele towards the end of 1865, he used the trademark \"Imperial Carte-de-Visite.\" Whatever the name, the popular print format joined the photograph album as a fixture in the late 19th-century Victorian parlor. (ref. Wikipedia)

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Card Cond: VG-VG/EX (some wear), Please see scans for actual condition, (images 3, 4 & 5 are for reference only).

This Cabinet Card would make a great addition to your collection or as a Gift (nice for Framing).

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