Lot 38: MARCONI, GAUDENZIO (1841-1885 ) Album containing 199 photographs of nude women depicted as mythical figures and angels.

Name: MARCONI, GAUDENZIO (1841-1885 ) Album containing 199 photographs of nude women depicted as mythical figures and angels.
Brand: Swann Auction Galleries
SKU: 01uhptug7q

Est: $7,000 USD - $10,000 USDSold:

Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USFebruary 07, 2008

Item Overview

Description

MARCONI, GAUDENZIO (1841-1885 )
Album containing 199 photographs of nude women depicted as mythical figures and angels. Albumen prints, 5 1/4x4 inches (13.3x10.1 cm.), with an inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered cloth. 1870s

Artist or Maker

Gaudenzio Marconi

Condition Report

All items are offered for sale subject to Swann Galleries'' standard terms and conditions of sale, which are published in our catalogues.

Notes

Seguin, Naef, Marbot, et. al., After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography, p.37, fig.13, and pl.92-94

Das Aktfoto, 70-71 and 94.

A marvelous album of angels that features nubile young women (some with their male counterparts) sprouting wings and draped in flowing gossamer. More mature subjects are presented as goddesses, who are either holding a staff, perched atop a globe, or shown with a canine companion.

Marconi took his visual cues from the master French photographer of female nudes, Auguste Belloc, purchasing his studio and inventory. Marconi ultimately popularized the form by setting his beautiful subjects in mythological or biblical tableaux accessible to students of art and religion alike.

JPGs are available upon request.

Auction Details

FINE PHOTOGRAPHS

Swann Auction Galleries

February 07, 2008, 02:30 PM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US

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