OLYMPE FACETIOUS COUNT AGUADO

OLYMPE FACETIOUS

COUNT AGUADO

Weekly transmission 48-2017 presents:

Descended from a noble Spanish banking family, Olympe Aguado... IIe Aguado family, some dates IIIWeekly Drawing by éophile Bouchet: Le Comte Facétieux IVSelection from the Aguado album to be presented at auction in Madrid 1-13

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N°48-2017. OLYMPE, FACETIOUS COUNT AGUADO

Descended from a noble Spanish banking family,

“Count Olympio-Clémente Aguado de las Marismas began to photograph about 1849. As oneof the early practitioners who "welcome[d] the new art and who devoted to it not a little energyand money, but their fortunes and their lifetimes," Aguado made both daguerreotypes and calotypesand may even have exhibited his paper negatives. Eventually turning to collodion-on-glass negatives,he made enlargements by projection, which was highly unusual in the 1850s. As a testament tohis technical skills, Aguado once successfully printed 20,000 francs in counterfeit money for afriend's single night of high living. In addition to making nature studies and landscapes, he alsoindulged in theatrical tableaux vivants involving friends and family.” (Getty Museum)

Weekly Transmission 48 III Thursday 30 November 2017 .

THE AGUADO FAMILY

Don Alexandre Aguado (1784-1842), Marquis de Las Marismas del Guadalquivir,viscount de Monte Ricco. - Spanish banker, was born of Jewish parentage at Seville, on the 29th ofJune 1784. He began life as a soldier, fighting with distinction in the Spanish war of independence on the sideof Joseph Bonaparte. After the battle of Baylen (1808) he entered the French army, in which he rose to be coloneland aide-de-camp to Marshal Soult. He was exiled in 1815, and immediately started business as a commission-agent in Paris, where, chiefly through his family connexions in Havana and Mexico, he acquired in a few yearsenough wealth to enable him to undertake banking. The Spanish government gave him full powers to negotiate theloans of 1823, 1828, 1830 and 1831; and Ferdinand VII. rewarded him with the title of marquis, thedecorations of several orders and valuable mining concessions in Spain. Aguado also negotiated the Greek loan of1834. In 1828, having become possessed of large estates in France, including the chateau Margaux, famous forits wine, the chateau du Petit-Bourg at Evry, the Paris Hôtel 6 de la rue Grange Batelière, now Mairie du IXe,rue Drouot . He was naturalized as a French citizen. He died at Gijon in Spain on the 14th of April 1842,leaving a fortune computed at 60,000,000 francs, and a splendid collection of pictures which at his death wasbought by the French government. (from Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911).

His sudden death of apoplexy in a snow storm occured during a trip to some of his Spanish properties, the minesof Siero and Langreo. He is buried in Pere Lachaise and the ceremony was held at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette church.His executor was his close friend and protégé, the famous South American heroe, José de San Martin. “It was inCadiz (military academy) that Jose, at an age when friendships take strong root, formed associations that were tocontinue in the new world. Two of the friends he made here were Spaniards — General Ordonez and Don AlejandroAguado, both to play important roles in his later life.” ( Margaret H. Harrison, Captain of the Andes, 2009).

Don Alejandro Aguado married in 1830 Carmen Victoria Moreno (1788 -1867) of modest origin, who sharedhis life for many years and gave him three sons :

Alexandre Aguado, 2nd Marquis de las Marismas (1813-1861). - married in 1841 toClaireEmillie Mac Donell (1817-1885), dame de compagnie of the Empress Eugénie, children: Alexandre Jean(1841-1882), Arthur Olympe (1845-1894), and Carmen Ida Maria, 1847-1880).

Olympe, count Aguado (1827-1894). - his mentor was San Martin, he was said to vhave been intimatewith both Eugénie de Monijo and Marie Duplessis, and in photography a student of baron Vigier and GustaveLe Gray, married in 1860 to Louise Juliette Bertha de Freysted, children: Louis Napoleon 1862, and AloyseBerthe, 1870.

Onésippe, viscount Aguado (1830-1895). - worked with his brother Olympe on photography andmarried his brother’s widow, Emilie Mac Donell, in 1863, no children.

Louis, Alfred Fijan (1836-1914). -Don Alejandro recognized one son with actress Alexandrine Fijan.

Théophile Bouchet. Le Comte Facétieux

Weekly Transmission 48 V Thursday 30 November 2017 .

OLYMPE AGUADO (1837-1894)& alii. Important photographic album from OlympeAguado family, 1858-1862. Four hundred and ninety (490) Albumen prints.

To be auctioned in Madrid in February - [email protected]

Weekly Transmission 48 1 Thursday 30 November 2017 .

OLYMPE AGUADO (1837-1894). Paris, c. 1860. Albumen print.








OLYMPE AGUADO (1837-1894). DV & OA, Paris, c. 1860. Albumen print.


OLYMPE AGUADO (1837-1894). “L’original est garanti sans retouche”Santiago Papa, Paris, c. 1860. Albumen prints.


OLYMPE AGUADO. La Retouche, Paris, c. 1860. Albumen print.


OLYMPE AGUADO (1837-1894). Luces y Ombras, c. 1860. Albumen prints.


OLYMPE AGUADO. Retour de la campagne d’Italie, Place Vendôme, juillet 1859.Albumen print.


OLYMPE AGUADO (1837-1894). Rue Bassano, Paris, c. 1860. Albumen print.


OLYMPE AGUADO. L’Impératrice et le Petit Prince, c. 1860. Albumen prints.


OLYMPE AGUADO (1837-1894). Parc de M. Pasquet, c. 1860. Albumen print.


La Pepita de Melon & alii, c. 1860. Albumen prints.

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