Lot 55
  • 55

Eugène Cuvelier (1837-1900)

Estimate
15,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Eugène Cuvelier
  • Paysage et instruments agricoles à l'orée d'une fôret, 1852
Épreuve sur papier salé d'après un négatif sur papier. Monogrammée et datée dans le négatif en bas à droite.

Provenance

Collection Charles Nègre

Exhibited

Philadelphie, Philadelphia Museum of Art, French Primitive Photography, 1969

Literature

André Jammes/Eugenia Parry Janis, The Art of French Calotype, with a Critical Dictionary of Photographers, 1845 - 1870, Princeton, 1983, ill. pl. X
André Jammes, French Primitive Photography, Philadelphia, 1969, pl. 95

Condition

Two small tears (approx. 3 and 5 mm) at the upper edge, the right upper corner creased, with some soft folds parallel to the lower edge and across the upper left quadrant, a stonge fold across the bottom right corner.
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