Adding an adjustable saddle and a guiding wheel, Nicéphore Niépce aimed at perfecting this new means of transportation, which – as its name indicates – allowed its users to walk very fast on foot. The Niépce House decided to build an exact copy of the existing original (exhibited in the Musée Niépce at Châlon). The…
Every year, the National Heritage Days are the occasion for the Niépce House to present new research and findings, which then are put on show in the house permanently. La table servie de Nicéphore Niépce Since J.L. Marignier’s research published in 1999, one knows that the image of the “Table Servie” – whose origins were…
The most important mass of documents ever collected about Niépce The book online The Niépce’s House proudly presents the book Niépce, Correspondance et papiers, by Manuel Bonnet and Jean-Louis Marignier, a set of the most important documents ever collected on Niépce. Mainly written to relatives and close friends, these letters are better than a lab…
During the National Heritage Days 2003, the visitors were invited to discover in the garden, opposite to the house, a range of plants that are illustrating some of Niépce’s botanical research (cf. other inventions).The yellow color of isatis tinctoria (“dyer’s woad”) illuminates the flower garden. Jean-Louis Marignier and Michèle Lourseau collected their blossoms after bloom…
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities Research at the University of Texas at Austin organized an international symposium on research related to the View from the Window at Le Gras (1827)
Within the framework of research on the origins of photography, one of Daguerre’s first views of Paris was presented: the very image that allowed him to get the official acknowledgement of the invention of the daguerreotype by the Académie des Sciences.
In September 2002, during the National Heritage Days, Nicéphore Niépce’s house was first opened to the public.
One of the first daguerreotypes of Paris made by Daguerre shown at Nicéphore Nièpce’s home during Patrimony Days, 2002.
Each two years since September 2002, we’ve been having the pleasure to welcome the students from the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Getty Grant Program, under the auspices of the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. The Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation program…
Jean-Louis Marignier and Pierre-Yves Mahé regularly present the results of their research into Nicéphore Niépce at specialist events. The first public presentation of the restoration of the Maison Niépce took place at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in July 2000.
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The Nicéphore Niépce House is open each year from July 2nd to August 31st only, every day from 10am to 6pm (closed on Tuesdays).