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39

Gustave Le Gray

Villiers-le-Bel 1820 – 1884 Cairo

Pont du Carrousel, vue du Pont Royal, Paris. Circa 1859

Vintage. Albumin-contact print from glass plate negative, gold-tinted. 38,1 × 50,6 cm (15 × 19 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Gustave Le Gray. Pont du Carrousel, vue du Pont Royal, Paris. Circa 1859.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 10,800

 

- 16,100

Sold for:

10,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2020

From Dürer to Balkenhol – Selected Works, Thursday, 09.07.2020

Information

Vintage. Albumin-contact print from glass plate negative, gold-tinted. 38,1 × 50,6 cm (15 × 19 ⅞ in.). Signature stamp with red ink in the image lower right : „Gustave Le Gray“. Laid down on three-layer original cardboard (38,1 × 50,6 cm). With light handling marks.

Private Collection, Brandenburg

Exh.cat.: Photography and Architecture. 1839-1939. Chicago, The Art Institute; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, among others. 1982/1984, pl. 13 / Exh.cat.: Gustave Le Gray. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002, p. 293, ill. 318, cat.-no. 183 / Gustave Le Gray. Seestücke. Munich 2015, p. 91, pl. 38 / Exh.-cat.: Real/Ideal: Photography in France, 1847–1860. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016, Coverpage and pl. 63 (dated there: 1857)