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Antonin Personnaz was a French art collector and early colour photographer.

Early life

Antonin Personnaz was born in 1854 in Bayonne into a family with Savoyard origins, from the commune of Bessans. He died in the same town on 31 December 1936 ^[1].

Art collector

Personnaz was great lover of art and a friend and patron of painters, and bequeathed a 1937 bequest including 142 first-rate, mainly Impressionist works by Pissarro, Guillaumin, Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas, which are held among the masterpieces at the Musée d’Orsay and at the Musée Bonnat-Helleu. Of note is Sentier de la Mi-cote, Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley and Claude Monet's, Le Pont d'Argenteuil notoriously damaged in an act of vandalism in 2007

Photographer

From 1907, Antonin Personnaz practiced the Autochrome process invented by Auguste and Louis Lumière and produced more than a thousand plates, the grainy and pointillist rendering of which lends it an Impressionist quality; aesthetic qualities which he ardently defended and which he emphasised by making pictures at sites depicted by the painters.^[2] His widow donated his autochromes to the Société française de photographie.

Personnaz became a member of the SPF in 1886 and held the post of secretary general from 1911 to 1919. Several showings of his photographs were held there. He published several articles in the SFP review on the technique of the autochrome and on the relationship between painting and photography, and gave lectures on the same themes in France and abroad. The SFP has a large collection of autochromes bequeathed by his family. The Rouen Museum of Fine Arts dedicated an exhibition to him as part of the Normandy Impressionist Festival 2020.

Publications

Personnaz, Antonin, Paris, H. Laurens, 1925

References

^ Jean Cuisenier, Destins objets , Volume 1 of Studies and works collection - Heritage School, Publisher Documentation française, 1988, ISBN 2110020091, 9782110020093 p. 139:
When he died on December 31, 1936, he deposited a holograph with a notary in Bayonne on February 3, 1937, of which this is an extract: "I leave to my wife everything I own, apart from a few legacies indicated below
^ "Life in Colors : Antonin Personnaz Impressionist Photographer". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2020-08-12.

[1] Jean Cuisenier, Destins objets , Volume 1 of Studies and works collection - Heritage School, Publisher Documentation française, 1988, ISBN 2110020091, 9782110020093 p. 139:
When he died on December 31, 1936, he deposited a holograph with a notary in Bayonne on February 3, 1937, of which this is an extract: "I leave to my wife everything I own, apart from a few legacies indicated below

[2] "Life in Colors : Antonin Personnaz Impressionist Photographer". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2020-08-12.

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-From 1907, Antonin Personnaz practiced the [[Autochrome Lumière|Autochrome]] process invented by [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]] and produced more than a thousand plates, the [[Film grain|grainy]] and [[Pointillism|pointillist]] rendering of which lends it an Impressionist quality; aesthetic qualities which he ardently defended.  His widow donated his autochromes to the [[Société française de photographie]].
+From 1907, Antonin Personnaz practiced the [[Autochrome Lumière|Autochrome]] process invented by [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]] and produced more than a thousand plates, the [[Film grain|grainy]] and [[Pointillism|pointillist]] rendering of which lends it an Impressionist quality; aesthetic qualities which he ardently defended and which he emphasised by making pictures at sites depicted by the painters.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-11|title=Life in Colors : Antonin Personnaz Impressionist Photographer|url=https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/life-in-colors-antonin-personnaz-impressionist-photographer-dd/|access-date=2020-08-12|website=The Eye of Photography Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref>  His widow donated his autochromes to the [[Société française de photographie]].
 Personnaz became a member of the SPF in 1886 and held the post of secretary general from 1911 to 1919. Several showings of his photographs were held there. He published several articles in the SFP review on the technique of the autochrome and on the relationship between painting and photography, and gave lectures on the same themes in France and abroad. The SFP has a large collection of autochromes bequeathed by his family. The Rouen Museum of Fine Arts dedicated an exhibition to him as part of the Normandy Impressionist Festival 2020.