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Ernest Eugène Appert

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Ernest Eugène Appert (1830–1891) was a French photographer known for having produced a series of faked photos, titled Crimes de la Commune, meant to discredit the communards protesting in the Paris communes of 1871.[1][2][3] His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[4] the Getty Museum,[5] the Musée d'Orsay,[6] the National Portrait Gallery, London,[7] the Victoria and Albert Museum[8] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[9]

Appert was born in Angers in the Pays de la Loire in 1830[2] and died in 1891 in Cannes, France.[2]

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  1. ^ Woodward, Richard B. (7 May 2000). "The Uses of a Young Art at a Devastating Moment". Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ a b c Hannavy, John (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. ISBN 978-1-135-87327-1.
  3. ^ Fineman, Mia; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; Art (U.S.), National Gallery of (3 June 2019). Faking it: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781588394736 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Eugène Appert". gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Eugène Appert (French, 1831 – about 1890) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2019-05-11. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  6. ^ "Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Oeuvre". www.musee-orsay.fr.
  7. ^ "Ernest Eugène Appert – National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2019-05-11. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  8. ^ "Crimes de la Commune | Appert, Ernest Eugène | V&A Search the Collections". 3 June 2019. Archived from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Ernest Eugène Appert". metmuseum.org. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.


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