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A recently found daguerreotype of Henry Dunant
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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There are very few extant photographs of Henry Dunant. In an article printed in 1959, Bernard Gagnebin gave a list of seven portraits, while Daisy Mercanton in 1971 found there were eleven, plus one painting on enamel by Charles Dunant. Most of them portray Henry Dunant in the last years of his life at Heiden; three on 12 August 1895, two in 1901, and the last in 1908. In fact there are now only five known pictures of Dunant as a young man in the days of his prosperity. Apart from the portrait recently discovered by the Henry Dunant Institute, there are the two photographs taken at the time when the Red Cross was founded, two others in 1855 when Dunant was 27 years old, and only one around 1850, showing Dunant in the company of Jean-Gabriel Eynard and his wife.
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 18 , Issue 204 , June 1978 , pp. 135 - 136
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1978
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page 135 note 1 See Gagnebin, Bernard, “Les sept portraits d'Henry Dunant”, in Le Monde et la Croix-Rouge, vol. XXXIX (1959), pp. 4–5.Google Scholar
page 135 note 2 See Mercanton, Daisy, Henry Dunant, Essai bio-bibliographique, Geneva, 1971, pp. 115 ff.Google Scholar
page 135 note 3 Portrait published in International Review of the Red Cross, 03–04 1978.Google Scholar
page 135 note 4 See Auer, Michel, “Jean-Gabriel Eynard-Lullin photographe” in Revue du Vieux-Genève, 1973, pp. 65–68 Google Scholar.
We tender our thanks to the director of Revue du Vieux-Genève, Mr. Eugène-Louis Dumont, for having kindly put at our disposal the portrait of Henry Dunant published here.
page 136 note 1 This account, unfortunately not in full, may be found in Chapuisat, Edouard: Jean-Gabriel Eynard et son temps, 1775–1863, Geneva, 208 pp., no date indicated.Google Scholar
page 136 note 2 The author gives an account of Eynard's early efforts as a photographer in a paper, to be published shortly, entitled “Genève inédite vue par ses photographes”, which he read to the Fine Arts students at the Soctété des Arts in January 1978.
His warmest thanks go to Miss Marie-Claude Junod, who urged him to publish this picture and gave a number of useful suggestions.
page 136 note 3 See, in particular, Jaques, John, Histoire des Unions chrétiennes de jeunes gens de la Suisse romande, Geneva, [1902], p. 12 Google Scholar; and Shedd, Clarence P., “Henri Dunant et le développement international des Y.M.C.A.” in Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève, vol. IX (1947–1950), pp. 218–242.Google Scholar