An Important Collection of Photographs by Eugène and Adalbert Cuvelier

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Lot 18
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Eugène Cuvelier 1837-1900

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Eugène Cuvelier
  • 'FAMPOUX'
albumen print, numbered '211' by the photographer in the negative, mounted, titled in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, matted, circa 1860

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

Literature

Ulrike Gauss, Henning Weidemann, and Daniel Challe, Eugène Cuvelier (Stuttgart, 1996, in conjunction with the exhibition), no. 211 (this print)

Catalogue Note

The photograph in this lot was taken in, or near, Fampoux, a small village east and north of Cuvelier's home town of Arras.  The composition of this photograph, in which a small cottage seems to nestle into its surrounding landscape, is reminiscent of two drawings made by Rousseau at around the same time: Chaumière au bord d'un chemin and Chaumière dans les arbres (cf. Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau 1812 - 1867: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Graphique, nos. 639 and 657).  Schulman, Rousseau's iconographer, points out that the former drawing replicates almost exactly a drawing by Rembrandt (cf. Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, The Late Period, 1650 - 1669, Vol. VI, London, 1957, p. 372).

Gauss accounts for only one print of this image: the albumen print offered here.