Lot 39: EUGÈNE CUVELIER 1837-1900

COTTAGE WITH GRAPE VINES, BARBIZON

measurements note
10 1/8 by 7 7/8 in. (25.7 by 20 cm.)

albumen print, numbered '21' by the photographer in the negative, mounted, matted, circa 1863

PROVENANCE

The collection of John Chandler Bancroft, Middletown, Rhode Island

Gustave J. S. White Co., Auctioneers, Newport, Rhode Island, 1989

Acquired from the above by a New England antiques dealer

To the present owners, 1989

LITERATURE

Another print of this image:

Ulrike Gauss, Henning Weidemann, and Daniel Challe, Eugène Cuvelier (Stuttgart, 1996, in conjunction with the exhibition), no. 21

NOTE

Gauss does not account for this albumen print of this image, but lists one salt print. While the location of this rustic cottage with its distinctive trellis of thin branches is not identified, it may be the same that appears in Cuvelier's negative number 30, which shows a farm building also covered in grape vines. The print that Gauss lists for negative 30 is inscribed and dated 'Barbizon - 10 8bre 1863.'