CDV PORTRAIT Orla, Photo: FERNANDO ANAÏS NAPOLEON AND BARCELONA. CDV
photographer who, as J. Laurent, had French origin but ended up settling in Spain. Anaïs Napoleon
Anais, nee was Anne Tiffon Cassan, was born in Narbonne on 18 March 1831. in 1846, he moved to Spain with his family , his father was a barber, surgeon and Callista and settled in Barcelona under the name of Napoleon in the area . Las Ramblas
Notice of Napoleon, chiropody artist
on December 24, 1850 Anaïs martyr Antonio Fernández Soriano , a albaceteño who had studied photography in France and worked in Barcelona as a musician of the infantry regiment Together they start. a photographic companies nationwide best-known and enduring in the opinion Anaïs preferred to call her husband Fernando, taking name his name, so when they opened their business in 1951, it began calling " Anaïs and Fernando" . Together they attended to their customers in their study, although conducted photographic works at home (eg in cases of post-mortem photography) and soon became a must for political, military, church authorities, actors, musicians or architects.
Showcase" Napoleon" on the street Fernando
in 1865 they adopted the name. Mr Fernando and Anaïs Napoleon , but also had other names like Fernando, Fernando Napoleon or Casa Mr. Napoleon When his son Emilio began to take some responsibility within. business called A. and E. dits Napoleon
the study was using on the back of your photographs images of the awards were obtained and in 1875 could add the coat of arms since Fernando was named photographer camera by king Alfonso XII.
the study was prospering to open in 1893 a new study that came to work 25 employees the Napoleon study was also the place. chosen by the Lumière brothers to show first . once in the city the cinematograph But Napoleon did not stay there, just 5 days after the sample of the cinematograph Lumière in Catalonia, the" Napoleon" had already acquired the device and in 1896 became the representatives in Barcelona of the house Lumière . his film La Rambla de Santa Monica was such a success that opened one second film in another area of Barcelona in 1901, although competition grew and finally decided to abandon their cinematic adventure 1908
the photography studio Napoleon had a rather long life as it was in the hands of his sons, who also adopted his mother's surname to the final closure in 1968 , reaching also have photo studio in Madrid in 1879
in our collection we have portraits of Napoleon, one of them signed by Fernando Napoleon (id 7866.). and another by Fernando and Anaïs Napoleon (id. 7868)
Anaïs Napoleon was one of the first women who made daguerreotypes in Spain, although he did also cartes de visite and was interested in the photographic and advances implemented even in movies not in vain. Anaïs was the first professional photographer Catalonia and managed to make his way as a photographer and entrepreneur in the nineteenth century, something not easy and which had the help of her husband