Monkey on Branch (c. 1855): Art, History and Details

Monkey on Branch (c. 1855) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil (French, 1817–1886).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A stereoscopic viewer was invented by David Brewster in 1849, but he could not get British manufacturers interested, so took it to Paris in 1850. There, he showed it to Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil, who not only manufactured it but also began making his own stereoscopic daguerreotypes including this one. Along with natural history specimens, Duboscq-Soleil also photographed painted portraits and sculptures.

Object facts

• Title: Monkey on Branch
• Date: c. 1855
• Creator attribution: Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil (French, 1817–1886)
• Culture: America
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: stereo daguerreotype, sixth plate
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2021.53

A detail from the museum

Among the avid fans of the stereoscopic daguerreotypes of Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil was Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.