Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892)

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  Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) , Rome, Temple de Vesta, 1842

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  Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) , Jérusalem, Tombeau des Rois, 1844

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  Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) , Autoportrait, 1841

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  Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) , Étude de chêne, vers 1841

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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey Biography

(b Langres, Haute-Marne, 1804; d Courcelles, nr Paris, 1892). French photographer and draughtsman. A wealthy landowner and scholar who travelled widely, he made numerous sketches of Islamic architecture (untraced; engravings, Granada, Casa Tiros) and he took many very fine landscape photographs. During his travels in Italy, Asia Minor, Greece, Lebanon and Egypt (1841–5) he produced more than 900 daguerreotypes, which were used to illustrate his book on the Arabic monuments of the Middle East; he also photographed French monuments (e.g. La Tour St-Jacques, Paris , 1841; see Berger-Levrault, pl. 72). His work remained completely unknown until the plates (London, H. and A. Gernsheim priv. col.) were rediscovered in 1952. One of the earliest French landscape photographers, he devoted much of his time to his home at Courcelles, where he became a recluse after 1846. His only known contemporary exhibition was in Granada in 1833.

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