Lausanne’s forgotten photos

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Lausanne, Ouchy, celebrating navigation July 1863 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, the Grand-Pont from Place Bel-Air 1857-1859 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Mézery farm 1850-1865 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Unidentified portrait 1868 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, the city from rue César-Roux 1868 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, the cathedral and place de la Madeleine from the Riponne 1855-1862 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, children playing on the Montbenon walkway 1868 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, view over Ouchy from Le Colibri estate 1868 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, Ouchy, barge with lateen sail 1868 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, old customs building on rue César-Roux 1868 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Portrait taken in a workshop at Aix-la-Chapelle Date unknown Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, Place Chauderon from the Avenue de France 1869 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, Place du Vallon and the tunnel from the cantonal hospital 1869 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, Ouchy entrance 1868 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

Lausanne, Ouchy, celebrating navigation July 1863 Constant-Delessert, Musée historique de Lausanne

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Constant-Delessert, photography pioneer from Lausanne.

In autumn of 2011, four Swiss heritage institutions decided to try and acquire all or some of the 11 albums of photographs by Lausanne’s Constant-Delessert (1806-1876) which were put up for auction by Sotheby’s in Paris. Adrien Constant de Rebecque, born into an old artistocratic family, was one of the first to begin making photographic images around the beginning of the 1840s. (All images curtesy of Constant-Delessert/Historical Museum of Lausanne.)