Edmé Quenedey des Ricets

French opera singer and composer Pierre Gaveaux, physionotrace by Edme Quenedey des Ricets, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1821

Edmé Quenedey des Ricets (sometimes Edmé Quenedey) (born Riceys-le-Haut, December 17, 1756 - died Paris, February 16, 1830) was a French painter and engraver, known most especially for his miniatures. One of a family of eight children, he was initially destined for the priesthood, but studied instead at Dijon; he began his career as a restorer of pictures. Upon the invention of the physionotrace he took up that tool for making portraits. With his wife, Marie-Madeleine Pella, he had two children, Adèle and Aglaë; the latter later became an assistant to his father.

References

• René Hennequin: Edme Quenedey des Riceys (Aube): portraitiste au physionotrace : un "photographe" de l'Époque de la Révolution et de l'Empire, Société Académique de l'Aube, 1926.