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Auction archive: Lot number 34

Gustave Le Gray

Photographs
25 May 2022
Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$125,533 - US$188,300
Price realised:
£327,600
ca. US$411,249
Auction archive: Lot number 34

Gustave Le Gray

Photographs
25 May 2022
Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$125,533 - US$188,300
Price realised:
£327,600
ca. US$411,249
Beschreibung:

Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély
1857 A unique album of 66 albumen prints (44 scenes and 22 portraits) from wet-collodion negatives, mounted to album pages. Fifty-six with red ink facsimile signature stamps and 4 smaller prints with red ink credit stamps, all on the recto; 38 annotated, possibly by Regnaud, in blue ink on the mounts. The majority mounted one-per-page. Oblong folio, dark green leather with gilt embossed title, date, dedication and imperial arms on front cover. Portraits: each approx. 32 x 24.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Scenes: varying sizes from 13.2 x 17.8 cm (5 1/4 x 7 in.) to 32.6 x 38.7 cm (12 7/8 x 15 1/4 in.) and one six-part panorama 30.6 x 210.5 cm (12 x 82 7/8 in.) overall Album: 54 x 67 cm (21 ¼ x 26 3/8 in.) This work is unique. List of images is available upon request.
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Auction archive: Lot number 34
Auction:
Datum:
25 May 2022
Auction house:
Phillips
30 Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom, W1J 6EX (map)
Beschreibung:

Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély
1857 A unique album of 66 albumen prints (44 scenes and 22 portraits) from wet-collodion negatives, mounted to album pages. Fifty-six with red ink facsimile signature stamps and 4 smaller prints with red ink credit stamps, all on the recto; 38 annotated, possibly by Regnaud, in blue ink on the mounts. The majority mounted one-per-page. Oblong folio, dark green leather with gilt embossed title, date, dedication and imperial arms on front cover. Portraits: each approx. 32 x 24.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Scenes: varying sizes from 13.2 x 17.8 cm (5 1/4 x 7 in.) to 32.6 x 38.7 cm (12 7/8 x 15 1/4 in.) and one six-part panorama 30.6 x 210.5 cm (12 x 82 7/8 in.) overall Album: 54 x 67 cm (21 ¼ x 26 3/8 in.) This work is unique. List of images is available upon request.
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Auction archive: Lot number 34
Auction:
Datum:
25 May 2022
Auction house:
Phillips
30 Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom, W1J 6EX (map)
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