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Henri Le Secq. Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles (18 August 1818 – 26 December 1882) was a French painter and photographer. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1839, Le Secq was one of the five photographers selected to carry out a photographic survey of architecture ( Commission des Monuments Historiques ).
Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles (18 August 1818 – 26 December 1882) was a French painter and photographer. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1839, Le Secq was one of the five photographers selected to carry out a photographic survey of architecture (Commission des Monuments Historiques).
Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles, né le 16 août 1818 à Paris, où il est mort le 24 décembre 1882, est un peintre, graveur, photographe et collectionneur d'art français. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ]
Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles was a French painter and photographer. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1839, Le Secq was one of the five...
Feb 21, 2024 · Henri Le Secq, a painter and antiquarian, collected Old Master prints and medieval ironwork. As the son of a politician, Le Secq became an expert on his native Paris and the self-appointed guardian of its historic architectural treasures as the city faced urbanization.
Henri Le Secq was a learned and cultivated man, a painter and a passionate collector of old master prints and medieval ironwork.
Henri Le Secq was both a professional painter and photographer. Initially trained in sculpture he studied in several Paris studios including that of Paul Delaroche. He was also an antiquarian and was concerned by the destruction of medieval Paris during the modernising projects in the 1850s.
