Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Artist, industrial designer, and photographer. Born in Paris. Worked as an industrial designer for 30 years. Exhibited at a Brussels industrial exhibition (1857). Opened a plaster casts manufacturing and photography company in Paris in 1864 that was ultimately a failure. Instead, sold the photographs of plants and flowers to drawing schools. Author of Studies of Leaves (1864). Biographical information: Benezit; John Hannavy, editor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Routledge, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 67, 76, 195, 1345; Anne McCauley, The Career of Charles Aubry, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 14, 1986, pp. 158-159. (AC, CC)