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– Menu, photograph illustrating the category “About us” : © Laora Queyras.
– Home page, the two introductory photographs in the “Discover us” section: © Laora Queyras.
– Explore content, slider for the “The mineral, a collectors’ items” section (“Mango” quartz, Colombia): © Laora Queyras.
– Explore content, interactive frieze :
Rudolf II of Hasburg: Hans von Aachen, oil on copper, ± 1590 – Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wien).
Louis XV: Hyacinthe Rigaud, oil on canvas, 1730 – Château de Versailles.
John Stuart: Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, 1773 – National Portrait Gallery (London).
Antoine Lavoisier: Jacques-Louis David, 1788, oil on canvas – MET (New York City).
Johan Wolfang von Goethe: Joseph Karl Stieler, oil on canvas, 1828 – Neue Pinakothek (Munich).
Clarence S. Bement: extract from Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography.
John Pierpont Morgan: Pach Brothers studio, photograph, 1902 – Henry Ford Collections.
Andrew Carnegie: Brady-Handy collection, Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.).
Erika Pohl-Ströher: © Sothebys – Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher: The Life of a Remarkable Collector (2021)
Stephen Smale: photograph © George M. Bergman, 2008.
Barry Yampol: copyright unidentified. Please contact us at info@hbm-minerals.com for modification or removal.
Gene Meieran: © Rice Museum of rocks & minerals.
Lyda Hill: photograph © Carol M. Highsmith, 2014 – Library of Congress (Washington, D.C) / Photograph by FERT98, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Salim Edde: photograph © Joseph Eid for AFP, 2022, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
– Explore content, photograph illustrating the quote by Walter Benjamin: © Louis-Dominique BAYLE
– Explore content, miniature photograph of the section “Is collecting minerals an investment?” (Rhodochrosite, Peru): © Laora Queyras.
– Content Explore, transitional photograph of the parts “Is collecting minerals an investment?” and “La Haute Collection”: (Rhodochrosite, Peru): © Laora Queyras.
– Contents Minerals criteria, photograph illustrating the section “Perfection” (Rhodochrosite, Peru): © Laora Queyras.
All other photographs, illustrations or gouaches, without this list being limitative: © Adeline Certain – HBM.
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