{"id":1485,"date":"2014-01-14T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/?page_id=1485"},"modified":"2021-10-04T08:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:53:53","slug":"felix-meheux-hand-colorist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/online-exhibits\/photographing-dermatology\/felix-meheux-hand-colorist\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9lix M\u00e9heux, hand colorist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The collections of Dr William Thomas Corlett (1854\u20131948)<\/h3>\n
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M\u00e9heux hand colored a photograph taken of a patient suffering from scarlet fever\/scarletina.<\/p><\/div>\n

In his formative career, Corlett worked as a dresser at the H\u00f4pital Saint-Louis, Paris during the early 1880s3<\/a> The H\u00f4pital was furnished with a museum founded in 1865 on the dermatological watercolors donated by the physician Alphonse Devergie (1798\u20131879). A collection of wax moulages was added during the early 1860\u00a0s by the dermatologist Charles Lailler (1828\u20131898), followed by a museum of dermatological photographs in 1896.4<\/a> F\u00e9lix M\u00e9heux (1838\u20131908) was a photographer and an outstanding colorist at the H\u00f4pital Saint-Louis from 1884 to 1904. During 1899\u20131900, Corlett visited Paris to enlist the services of M\u00e9heux. In the Preface of Corlett’s Treatize <\/em>he wrote that in order \u201cTo render them more life-like I secured the services of F\u00e9lix M\u00e9heux, dessinateur<\/em> of the H\u00f4pital St Louis, Paris, to color the photographs.\u201d5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Corlett continued \u201cThe truthfulness in detail of photographic reproductions, and the gratifying reception accorded the author’s lantern slide demonstrations of the acute exanthemata, having suggested to him that the time is opportune for a separate work on this important group of diseases. To further enhance its usefulness, and in order to reproduce in color certain negatives requiring special demonstration, the services of F\u00e9lix M\u00e9heux, dessinateur et photographie [designer and photographer] at the H\u00f4pital St Louis, Paris have been secured, whose life-like illustrations in Chatelain’s admirable work on diseases of the skin have sufficiently introduced him to the medical profession.6<\/a> In this way the most delicate shades of color have been given, not only as peculiar to the particular diseases, but when thought desirable, the various stages through which they pass have been illustrated in color, as well as the conditions most liable to mask their appearance.\u201d7<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In total, M\u00e9heux hand colored 11 photographs for Corlett, including cases of variola, varicella, scarletina, rubeola, and rubella. The original photographs hand colored by M\u00e9heux form part of Corlett’s photographic collection housed at the Dittrick. They bear Corlett’s detailed and comprehensive instructions written to M\u00e9heux (in French) and to the publishers (in English).<\/p>\n

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The collections of Dr William Thomas Corlett (1854\u20131948)<\/p>\n

In his formative career, Corlett worked as a dresser at the H\u00f4pital Saint-Louis, Paris during the early 1880s3<\/a> The H\u00f4pital was furnished with a museum founded in 1865 on the dermatological watercolors donated by the physician Alphonse Devergie (1798\u20131879). A collection of wax moulages was added during the early 1860\u00a0s by the dermatologist Charles Lailler (1828\u20131898), followed by a museum of dermatological photographs in 1896.4<\/a> F\u00e9lix M\u00e9heux (1838\u20131908) was a photographer and an outstanding colorist at the H\u00f4pital Saint-Louis from 1884 to 1904.<\/p>\n

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