Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
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Boissy-Saint-Léger
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, 12 December 1795 - Paris
Paris
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, 4 May 1866) was a French
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painter, lithographer and photographer.
Vallou de Villeneuve studied with Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France...
, and started his career at the Salon of 1814, exposing images depicting daily life, mode, regional costumes and nude photographs.
He moved to Paris in 1850, founding the Société française de photographie
Société française de photographie
The Société française de photographie is an association, founded in 1854, devoted to the history of photography. It has a large collection of photographs and old cameras...
in 1854. He was also a member of the Société héliographique.
Vallou de Villeneuve is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France , though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the...
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