Jules Lion

St. Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square, New Orleans. 1842 lithograph based on own daguerreotype by Jules Lion

Jules Lion (c. 1809-1866), born in Paris,^[1] was an early American photographer. He was the first African-American photographer,^[2] opening a daguerrotype studio in New Orleans in 1840^[2] one year after the invention of the process.^[2] Lion also painted, and made a series of lithographs of prominent Louisianans and people connected to Louisiana history, including John James Audubon and Andrew Jackson.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jules Lion.

• Bio & Works. Encyclopedia of Louisiana.
• Jules Lion
• Selections of nineteenth-century Afro-American Art, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Jules Lion