Ferrier & Soulier - Ruines du Temple de la Concode, a Rome, 1853/54

Maker: Ferrier pere & fils et Soulier
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen on glass stereoview
Size: 7 in x 3.5 in
Location: Italy

Object No. 2010.293
Shelf: M-14

Publication: John B Cameron & Janice g. Schimmelman, The Glass Stereoviews of Ferrier & Soulier, 1852-1908, The Collodion Press, Rochester, MI, 2016, pl 81

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Notes: Claude M. Ferrier was active from the 1850s through the 1870s. Later under the name Ferrier pere & fils et Soulier. It is noted that their glass images were also available on stereoview card mounts eventually numbering over 40,000 titles. William Darrah touts Ferrier as having, “produced the world’s finest glass stereographs” in his book, The World of Stereographs. This image shows an early view of the excavation at the Roman Forum with the boulevard of trees just planted.

Ferrier was born in 1811 in Lyon, France. He began his career as an artist, studying at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. He then became interested in photography and began to experiment with the new medium, initially becoming known for his portraits of notable French people. By 1851 he had settled in Paris and in that year he exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London. His work so impressed the organisers that, together with the English photographer, Hugh Owen, he was asked to make photographs of the exhibits. More than 140 bound sets of reports and accompanying photographs, known as the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided were presented to, among others, Queen Victoria, Heads of Foreign Governments, the Exhibition commissioners, and the British Museum. In 1855, Ferrier exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of Paris, where he was awarded a silver medal. He is credited with creating the first glass stereoviews for the Brewster stereoscope in 1852. These became very popular and in 1857 he produced several series of stereoviews of France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Initially he collaborated with Jules Duboscq, with the two selling each other’s stereoviews. This arrangement came to an end when Duboscq experienced financial difficulties. In 1859 Ferrier went into partnership with his son and with another stereo photographer, Charles Soulier, with the business being sold in 1863 to Léon & Lévy, a company that specialized in stereoscopic views and picture postcards. However, Ferrier and Soulier continued to sell their photographs through the company. Ferrier continued to work as a photographer until his death on 13 July 1889.

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Taken on: February 7, 2011

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