PLAQUES JOUGLA / DANS LE MONDE ENTIER. Circa 1890.
54 1/4x38 1/4 inches, 137 3/4x97 1/4 cm. Minot, Paris. Condition B+ / B: extensive overpainting in margins; repaired tears in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds.
Advertising photographic plates under the slogan "night and day," Gonyn comes up with a simple concept to convey the ease and universality of the product. He depicts the globe, half shrouded in darkness, surrounded by people from around the world: an Eskimo, a Geisha, a Native American and a European, each wielding a different kind of camera.
