Lot 149: [ Photographs ] LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE (French, 1839-1917) LE NOUVEL OPERA DE PARIS, SCULPTURE ORNEMENTALE, circa 1868 albumen print from collodion negative, on original mount image: 15 x 11.125 in. (38.1 x 28.3 cm); mount: 22.9375 x 17.5625 in.

[ Photographs ] LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE (French, 1839-1917) LE NOUVEL OPERA DE PARIS, SCULPTURE ORNEMENTALE, circa 1868 albumen print from collodion negative, on original mount image: 15 x 11.125 in. (38.1 x 28.3 cm); mount: 22.9375 x 17.5625 in. (58.2 x 44.6 cm); title, publisher Ducher et Cie, Editeurs and photographer credits in letterpress below image on mount; 40 stamped above image on mount; numbered No 40 and No 160 in the negative E4000-6000 LITERATURE James Borcoman, EugSne Atget 1857-1927, OTTAWA, National Gallery of Canada, 1984, fig. 34; Catherine Mathon and Anne-Marie Garcia, Les Chefs- d'Oeuvre de la Photographie dans les Collections de l'Ecle des Beaux- Arts, PARIS, Ecole Nationale Sup,rieure des Beaux-arts, 1991, pp. 92- 93; Michel Frizot, et al., A New History of Photography, Cologne, Knemann, 1998, p. 222 (illustrated)