Jean-Baptiste Frénet

He learned the artistic aspects of the silk trade from his father and attended the School of Fine Arts in lyon between 1827 and 1833, studying painting and life drawing.

He then attended Frédéric Ozanam's college within the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, which advocated Catholic libertarian values (which were condemned by the Pope).

A small colony from Lyon, also including Hippolyte Flandrin, centred around Ingres in the Villa Medici: they drew and painted the Roman monuments.

Failing to win any prizes in Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon of 1841, he decided to relocate to the village of Charly, near Lyon, where he had bought a house.

Frénet applies to out of decision stereotypical views of the time involving heavy stagings, and is one of the first to practice the instant, the familiar and intimate subject.

He considers photography as an art, that opinion has emerged in the first issue of The Light[1] body of the young and ephemeral gravure Company founded in 1851.