Oscar-Edmond Ris-Paquot

A carte de visite portrait of the painter, author, art critic and ceramics expert Oscar-Edmund Ris, known as Ris-Paquot.

Born at Amiens in 1835, his father originally intended that Ris should follow in his footsteps and join the army but at the age of seventeen he moved to Paris to follow an artistic career. He eventually devoted himself to the study of ancient ceramics and porcelains, publishing several works on the subject including a Histoire des faÏences de Rouen (1870), a Dictionnaires des marques et monogrammes des faïences, poteries, grès, terre de pipe, terre cuite, porcelains (1872), and a Manuel du collectionneur de faïences anciennes (1877).

On 16 June 1864 at Amiens he married Louise Paquot, herself a painter, who was fourteen years his senior.

The date of his death seems to be unknown.

The backplate on the reverse of the portrait identifies the photographer as O. Ris of Amiens, who was presumably the sitter himself, though his name does not appear in Voignier’s Répertoire des photographes de France au dix-neuvième siècle.