Henri Secq
Henri Jean-Louis Secq (1818, Paris - 1882, Paris) was a Photographe French.
Biography
Henri Secq belongs to the photographers elected by the French State for the heliographic mission . Place photographic order in 1851 with 5 photographers: others being Gustave Gray, Hippolyte Bayard, Edouard Baldus, and Mestral. The purpose of this order is to make an inventory of fixtures of the architectural inheritance of France.
It presents photographs to the World Fair of 1855.
Its topics of predilection are the landscapes and the architecture of the cathedrals.
Collections
- Library of decorative Arts, Paris.
- Its collection of Ferronnerie started in 1862 and continued by his/her Henri son is with the Musée Secq of the Small towers to Rouen.