Lot Essay
Along with Le Gray, the painter Bénédict Masson was commissioned to document the camp.
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Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Cassaignolles, 1857
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GUSTAVE LE GRAY
Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Cassaignolles, 1857
Album with 25 albumen prints.
Varying sizes from 5¼ x 7in. (13.5 x 7.9cm.) to 11¾ x 14 5/8in. (29.6 x 37cm.) One credited 'Bénédict Masson Pi[...]' in negative; 20 with red ink signature facsimile stamps and 4 with red ink blindstamp credits on recto; majority mounted one-per-page (2 mounts unevenly trimmed along bottom). Inscribed 'donné à mon neveu le commandant du Barry/6 novembre 1907/de Cassaignolles' in ink, possibly binder's 'Binant 7, rue de Clery à Paris' gilt stamp on front pastedown. Green leather-backed cloth, gilt title, dedication, date and imperial arms on front cover.
Album size: 21 3/8 x 26 3/8in. (54.1 x 67cm.)
Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Cassaignolles, 1857
Album with 25 albumen prints.
Varying sizes from 5¼ x 7in. (13.5 x 7.9cm.) to 11¾ x 14 5/8in. (29.6 x 37cm.) One credited 'Bénédict Masson Pi[...]' in negative; 20 with red ink signature facsimile stamps and 4 with red ink blindstamp credits on recto; majority mounted one-per-page (2 mounts unevenly trimmed along bottom). Inscribed 'donné à mon neveu le commandant du Barry/6 novembre 1907/de Cassaignolles' in ink, possibly binder's 'Binant 7, rue de Clery à Paris' gilt stamp on front pastedown. Green leather-backed cloth, gilt title, dedication, date and imperial arms on front cover.
Album size: 21 3/8 x 26 3/8in. (54.1 x 67cm.)
Literature
E. Parry Janis, The Photography of Gustave Le Gray, Chicago, 1987, p.19, fig.2; p.84, pl.1; p.94, pl.11; p.95, pl.13; p.96, pls.14-15 (laterally reversed); p.97, pls.16-17; p.99, pl.19; S. Aubenas, Exhibition catalogue, Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2002, p.368, pls.144-48; p.370, pls.153-55.
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