Background
Auguste-Rosalie Bisson was born in 1826 in Paris, France.
Auguste-Rosalie Bisson was born in 1826 in Paris, France.
Auguste-Rosalie was an amateur heraldic painter; for a time he was an inspector of measures and weights at Rambouillet. In 1841 he and his brother opened a portrait studio in Pans, which remained in business until 1865. The studio became a salon of sorts for artists and intellectuals.
Auguste-Rosalie Bisson daguerreotyped all the members of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, and these portraits were published as lithographs. In I860, with his brother, he accompanied Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie to the Swiss Alps, there producing a dazzling array of mountain views. In 1861 he climbed Mount Blanc, along with twenty-five carriers and guides, recording that stark place with the use of the wet-collodion process.
When their studio closed, Louis retired, but Auguste-Rosalie Bisson went on to work for Léon and Levy, photographers, and then for the Adolphe Braun Studio.
The brothers' work was exhibited in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Edinburgh, London, Manchester and Marseilles.