Lot 35: LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE (1839-1917)

Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris
Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1875
4 volumes with a total of 115 albumen prints. Varying sizes from 5 1/4 x 14in. (13.5 x 35.2cm.) to 11 x 15 1/4 in. (28.1 x 38.5cm.) or reverse. Majority numbered in negatives; each with printed photographer's and printer's credits, publication and section titles, sequential number on mount. 3 volumes with title and half title, each with plate list. Each maroon cloth-backed red leather folio with ties, publication and section title in gilt on front cover. Atlas folio. (4)

J. Szarkowski, Photography Until Now, New York, 1989, p.101.

Statues Décoratives Groupes et Bas-Reliefs (pls.1-35); Sculptures Ornementale (pls.1-45); Bronzes, Candélabres, Lustres, Torchères - Appliques - Lampadaires (pls.1-13); and Peintures Décoratives (pls.1-20).

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