Anaïs Tiffon, Antonio Fernández and the photographic company «Napoleon»

• Main Author: María de los Santos García Felguera
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Art i Musica 2006-12-01
• Series: Locvs Amoenvs
• Subjects: anaïs, napoleon, fotografía, retrato, barcelona, antonio fernández soriano, fernández tiffon, «mr. fernando»
• Online Access: https://revistes.uab.cat/locus/article/view/173

Anaïs Napoleon, until now little more than a name in a photographic label, is the French born Anne Tiffon Cassan. She founded with her husband —Antonio Fernández Soriano, called «Mr. Fernando», as we prove— one of the most important portrait studies of photography in Barcelona during the second half of xixth. and the beginind of xxth. century, the company «A. y E. Dits Napoleon». After them, their sons Emilio, Napoleón Francisco y Napoleón Fernando Fernández Tiffon worked in the photography studies opened by this family in Barcelona and Madrid. Still, in the next generation, «Napoleón Santiago» —Santiago Feliu Fernández—, grandson of Anaïs and Antonio, took care of the business in Barcelona and Emilio García Quevedo in Majorque. In this article, we document the life of Anne Tiffon and the rest of the photographers included under the name Napoleon, as well as the dates of activity of the studies.