Le Kaire. Maison et Jardin dans le Quartier Frank (with Gustave Flaubert)

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MAXIME DU CAMP (1822-1894)
Le Kaire. Maison et Jardin dans le Quartier Frank (with Gustave Flaubert)
Blanquart-Evrard process print from Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie. 1850. Printed photographer's, publisher's and printer's credits, title and plate number 3 on mount.
8¼ x 5¾in. (20.7 x 14.7cm.)

Literature

See: Jammes, Blanquart-Evrard et les Origines de l'Édition Photographique Française, p. 80; Morris Hambourg et al., The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century. Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, p. 196, pl. 84; Jammes and Janis, The Art of French Calotype, pl. XLVI, for a variant cropping, there titled House and Garden in Cairo with Flaubert.

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Lot Essay

"You ask me whether the Orient is up to what I imagined it to be. Yes it is; and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind. Facts have taken the place of supposition." - Gustave Flaubert, 1850 (Steegmuller, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour, p. 75).

In 1849, Du Camp set off on a voyage to the East, accompanied by his good friend Flaubert. With Flaubert in tow, Du Camp sought the regions and scenes that recalled the Romantic painters who had preceded them, such as Delacroix and Chassriau, creating documents of extraordinary beauty and exoticism. They travelled together for three years, not only through Egypt and the Middle East but also Greece, Constantinople and Italy.

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