Olympe Aguado
Count OlympeClementeAlexandreAuguste Aguado de las Marismas was a FrancoSpanish photographer and socialite, active primarily in the 1850s and 1860s. One of several early photographers who learned the practice from Gustave Le Gray, Aguado pioneered a number of photographic processes, including carte de visite photographs and photographic enlargement processes. He was also a founding member of the influential French Photographic Society in 1854.
Aguado was born in Paris in 1827, the second son of the Spanishborn Marquis Alexandre Aguado and Maria de Carmen Vidoire Moreno. Alexandre Aguado had been a supporter of Joseph Bonaparte during the Peninsular War . Following the war, he went into exile in Paris, and rose to become one of the wealthiest bankers in France. In the 1820s and 1830s, he negotiated a series of loans that saved Spain from bankruptcy, and King Ferdinand VII of Spain conferred on him the title of Marquis de las Marismas del Guadalquivir . Upon his death, his sons, including Olympe, inherited a considerable fortune.
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