Lot 5
  • 5

Charles Nègre

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Charles Nègre
  • 'Arles, Remparts romains (porte d'Auguste)', page de titre Le Midi de la France, vers 1852
  • PHOTOGRAPH
Tirage salé contrecollé sur papier lui-même contrecollé sur la page de titre Midi de la France. Monogrammé et titré dans le négatif c. n. arles en bas à droite. Titre de la publication, nom de l'auteur et crédit de l'éditeur en lettres d'imprimerie à l'encre noire.

Provenance

Collection particulière française

Literature

Françoise Heilbrun, Charles Nègre Photographe 1820 -1880, cat. expo. Paris, Musée Réattu / Musée du Luxembourg, éditions des musées nationaux, 1980, ill. pl. 3, p. 156 (variante);
Françoise Heilbrun, Charles Nègre. Das photographische Werk, Munich, Schirmer/ Mosel, 1988, ill. pl. 61, p. 173.

Condition

This salt print is in very good general condition. With two very tiny and light dots of foxing in the upper right area of the print. The card with very light random foxing.
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