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Lot 37
  • 37

Gustave Le Gray (1820 - 1884)

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gustave Le Gray
  • Camp de Chalons, Lanciers et dragons avec le colonel Pajol, 1857
Tirage albuminé, contrecollé sur carton d'époque. Avec le tampon de signature facsimilé à l'encre rouge en bas à droite. Monté et encadré.

Provenance

Galerie Hypnos, Paris

Literature

Eugenia Parry Janis, The Photography of Gustave Le Gray, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press / Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1987, ill. p. 93.

Condition

In very good condition. With original retouching particularly in the lower right and lower left quadrants and some random tiny spots of retouching. The card measures 52,8 x 64,2 cm and exhibits very light random foxing, light surface dirt and slightly discoloured along the edges. With remnatns of a former binding at the left edge.
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