An Important Collection of Photographs by Eugène and Adalbert Cuvelier

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Lot 14
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Eugène Cuvelier 1837-1900

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Eugène Cuvelier
  • 'SABLES DE MACHERIN' (TREES ON LEFT)
salt print, numbered '110' by the photographer in the negative, mounted, titled in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, matted, circa 1863

Provenance

The collection of John Chandler Bancroft, Middletown, Rhode Island

Gustave J. S. White Co., Auctioneers, Newport, Rhode Island, 1989

Acquired from the above by a New England antiques dealer

To the present owners, 1989

Exhibited

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Eugène Cuvelier oder Die Legende vom Wald, March - May 1997

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Eugène Cuvelier (1837-1900): Photographe de la Forêt de Fontainebleau, June - August 1997

Catalogue Note

While Gauss accounts for a number of other views by Cuvelier of the Macherin area (negative numbers 108, 109, 112, V/3, and V/4), this salt print, made from negative number 110, is not listed.