Margaritis and the mysterious Perraud

Abstract

As to so many other countries of the world the daguerreotype came to Greece in the year of its invention. Possibly it was someone anonymous, possibly it was the French-born, later French-Canadian, Pierre-Gustave Joly, Seigneur de Lotbiniere who was the first to bring his camera to Athens in October 1839 to photograph the Acropolis for NicolasMarie Paymal Lerebours. The original plates have disappeared, but Lerebours, the Paris optician, published three lithographed reproductions made after the Athens daguerreotypes with Lotbinière's comments in a picture book covering many parts of the world, Excursions Daguerriennes.1 Other daguerreotypes of Athens were taken by the Frenchman Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804–92), a wealthy artist, scholar and traveller who visited Greece and other countries of the eastern mediterranean on a ‘Grand Tour’ between 1842 and 1844. He took about 1000 daguerreotypes during this lengthy excursion, and several of Greece are still known. Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793–1870), a diplomat and senator, made about eighty daguerreotype views while he was French minister plenipotentiary to Greece in 1850.2

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