The Gaudin Brothers

part of the jonathan ross collection

Stereoviews

Alexis Gaudin & Frere - Untitled Drawing Room scene

Explore the work of The Gaudin Brothers with the following links which take you to a series of images and notes about each stereoview. These open in a new tab or window.

A comfortable size for freeviewing (parallel viewing) the images in the linked pdf documents is 125% or 150%. This can be adjusted at the top right of the document.

Indoor scenes set in Ballrooms, Restaurants and Drawing Room scenes with Party Games and Evenings at Home. Women together in the bedroom, and with children.

Part 1

Children , Crinolines, Evening Music, The Gaudin family with stereoscopes,
Dining Out, Bal Masqué.

Part 1 A

Mainly Outdoor scenes, Rustics and Laundresses. Some comedic, some theatrical and some great Occupational and social history.

Part 2

Stereoviews replicate the way we see the world by taking two views of a scene, one from the right eye position and another from the left. When these are mounted together and viewed in a stereoscope, the brain merges them into a 3-dimensional or ‘stereoscopic’ image.

The technique emerged in the 1850s, soon after the invention of photography, through the work of Charles Wheatstone and Sir David Brewster, and developed into a worldwide craze with thousands of practitioners.

Stereo photography has gone out of fashion several times over the past couple of centuries, only to be rediscovered by later generations. Most of the images on this site are by European photographers working in the 1850s and 60s.

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