Henri-Victor Regnault (1810-1878)
Sèvres, ses environs, Bords de la Seine.. vue prise de la Rive Gauche, d'aval en amont, au pied de la terrasse de Bellevue, c. 1852
Salt print from a paper negative, label on the verso with handwritten initials 'V.R.', title in pencil, stamped in ink 'Collection Albert Gilles'/Vue prise de la rive gauche, d'aval en amont, au pied de la terrasse de Bellevue.
17 3/8 x 13 3/4in
Salt print from a paper negative, label on the verso with handwritten initials 'V.R.', title in pencil, stamped in ink 'Collection Albert Gilles'/Vue prise de la rive gauche, d'aval en amont, au pied de la terrasse de Bellevue.
17 3/8 x 13 3/4in
Sold for
US$ 23,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Collection Albert Gilles
Sotheby's, Paris, Collection of Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, 21 March 2002, lot 80
Property from a Mid-Western Collection
Henri-Victor Regnault was one of the most important photographers of the so-called 'primitive' era. His work is not widely known, now considered rare, and often not in the best of condition. Fortunately his negatives have survived and are preserved in the collections of the manufactory at Sèvres and the Société Française de Photographie. In 1852 he became director of the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres, and resumed photographing images there that he had begun in 1847, producing a series of beautiful large-format studies of which this lot and the next are exceptional examples.
Category: Fine Art / Photographs
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