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Mestral collaborated with Le Gray in 1851 on a photographic expedition for the Commission des Monuments Historique to Toulouse and Aquitaine. In the autumn of 1852 he photographed Britanny and Normandy.
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O. MESTRAL
Chateau de Chemonceaux, early 1850s
Two calotypes, image size approx. 11¾ x 14¾ in., and 9¾ x 13½ in., numbered 50 and 56 in the negative respectively, the former signed Mestral in the negative. (2)
Chateau de Chemonceaux, early 1850s
Two calotypes, image size approx. 11¾ x 14¾ in., and 9¾ x 13½ in., numbered 50 and 56 in the negative respectively, the former signed Mestral in the negative. (2)