Musee maison nicephore niepce biography

The year 2024 marks the bicentennial of the invention of photography.

On September 16, 2024, photography celebrated its 200th anniversary! To commemorate this memorable date, Spéos and the Maison Nicéphore Niépce organized an exceptional exhibition, immersing visitors in the history of this revolutionary invention that transformed the way we observe and document the world.

The exhibition, held at Quai de la Photo, retraces the fascinating journey of photography and highlights the pioneering work of Nicéphore Niépce, who created the first permanent image in 1824: “I am pleased to finally be able to announce to you that, thanks to the improvement of my processes, I have succeeded in obtaining a view as I desired. It was taken from your room, on the side of Le Gras. I used my largest camera obscura and my largest stone for this purpose,” he wrote to his brother Claude, who was then in England, in a letter dated September 16, 1824.

This landmark exhibition was entirely organized and financed by Spéos and the Maison Niépce, the only ones to celebrate this historic 2024 anniversary, thus recalling their central and pioneering role in promoting the world’s photographic heritage.

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• The undertake where Nicephore Niepce took the pass with flying colours ever pic and invented the interior combustion locomotive.

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Rates

• 1789: French Revolution.

• 1792: Enlistment in the Revolutionary Army (south of France & Sardinia campaigns).

• 1794: Nicéphore leaves the Army and lives in Nice. He gets married. His elder brother Claude comes to join him.

• 1795: Birth of his son Isidore.

• 1797: Travels to Sardinia with his family and his brother. It is believed that during this journey Nicéphore and his brother first had the idea of Photography.

• 1798: Back in Nice, the two brothers perform their first inventors’ projects and work toward the development of a new engine principle based on air expansion during an explosion.

• 1801: Nicéphore, his family and Claude travel back to Chalon-sur Saône where they manage the familial estate that had been managed by Nicéphore Niépce’s mother since her husband’death in 1785.

• 1807: The two brothers obtain a ten-year patent, signed by Napoleon , for their engine, which they name Pyreolophore. It is the first internal combustion engine in the world. A boat model two meters long goes upstream on the Saône river against the current with this engine.

• 1807 – 1809: Elaboration of a project for a hydraulic pump to replace the Marly machine that provided water to the Château de Versailles.

• 1811: Works on as a subst