Lot 98
  • 98

Charles Nègre 1820-1880

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Nègre
  • 'ARLES, LES ALYSCAMPS, CHAPELLE SAINT-ACCURSE ET ARC DE SAINT-CÉSAIRE' (POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE)
2 photographs, comprising a positive salt print and the original waxed-paper negative, the positive signed and titled by the photographer in the negative and annotated 'Les Alyscamps Chapelle St. Accurse' in an unidentified modern hand in pencil on the reverse, the negative signed and titled by the photographer in ink on the image, each matted, 1852 (2)

Provenance

Collection of Charles Nègre

By descent to a Nègre family member

Acquired from the above by André Jammes, late 1950s

Sotheby's Paris, La Photographie III, Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, L'oeuvre de Charles Nègre, 22 March 2002, Sale 2003, Lot 465

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Exhibited

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Charles Nègre 1820--1880, May - June 1976 

Arles, Musée Réattu, Charles Nègre Photographe 1820-1880, July - August 1980; and traveling to: Paris, Musée Luxembourg, November 1980 - January 1981

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Literature

These prints:

Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston (Monterey Museum of Art, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition), pp. 50-51 (the positive and negative)

André Jammes, Charles Nègre photographe 1820-1880 (Paris, 1963), p. 31 (the positive only)

James Borcoman, Charles Nègre 1820-1880 (The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1976, In conjunction with the exhibition) (the positive only)