E. Nicolas)

Trente-quatre épreuves albuminées, cent cinquante-quatre négatifs sur papier ciré et huit papiers découpés. Accompagnés de soixante-quinze épreuves modernes.

Collection Albert Gilles

André Jammes/Eugenia Parry Janis : The Art of French Calotype, with a Critical Dictionary of Photographers, 1845 - 1870, Princeton, 1983, p. 229-231, ill. pl. XVII

Negatifs: The group in very good condition, some folds ans tears. Prints: generally in good condition, the cards soiled and a few with tears. No restoration has been made on the lot.
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L'oeuvre photographique de « E. Nicolas, à Senlis » est uniquement connue par les recherches d'André Jammes et Eugenia Parry Janis publiés dans The Art of French Calotype, 1983. Le groupe de photographies offert ici montre ses sujets favoris: images de la France exclusivement, des vues de villages, de paysages, des marines, des portraits et auto-portraits. Nicolas travaillait avec le négatif papier ciré et produisait des épreuves albuminées. Dans ce lot, il y a d'étonnants exemples de « masques» qui montrent une expérimentation avec des fragments méticuleusement découpés et superposés. Le lot est accompagné de soixante-quinze épreuves modernes, tirages argentiques.