Victor Prevost
Photographer, Visual Artist
1820 – 1881
Who was Victor Prevost?
French-born Victor Prevost is one of the earliest photographers to work in New York City.
Prevost studied in France under Paul Delaroche, and learned complicated photographic printing techniques from fellow student, Gustave Le Gray. However, after setting up his own studio on Broadway and Bleecker Street, Prevost failed to become a commercial success. His landscapes are a subtle, and rather idiosyncratic mix of the documentary and aesthetic traditions. Aside from a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2003, his work has gone largely unknown by a contemporary public, though numerous large institutions have long collected his work.
The bulk of the artist’s oeuvre resides in the George Eastman House, the Museum of the City of New York, and the New York Historical Society.
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- Born
- 1820
- Nationality
- United States of America
- France
- Profession
- Died
- 1881
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on July 23, 2013
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