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The lengthy explanatory and descriptive handwritten notations which appear on the original mount
are in French and apparently correspond to Muybridge’s 1881 visit to Paris.The notations describe
the creation of the negatives, and state that they are absolutely unretouched.According to the authors
of
Moving Pictures:American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
(Nancy Mowll Mathews and Charles Musser,
Hudson Hills Press), Etienne-Jules Marey (whose chronophotographs were influenced by Muybridge),
introduced the photographer to “an array of scientists, photographers, and intellectuals” of the day.