ADOLPHE BRAUN

Old master drawings from European museum collections, late 1860s-70s

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ADOLPHE BRAUN
Old master drawings from European museum collections, late 1860s-70s
Seventeen carbon prints, various different pigment colours, sizes to approx. 18 x 12½ in., mounted on grey-blue card within printed border, with photographer's credit Adolphe Braun, Phot., reference number, artist's name and museum title printed on mount and blindstamp Autotype Company Limited London. (17)

Literature

Hamber, A Higher Branch of the Art, p. 165 and illus. 111 (another from the same series)

Lot Essay

Including works by Rubens, Drer, Ruisdael, Van de Velde, Gericault and others.Hamber writes From the late 1860s the French photographic company of Adolphe Braun, for which the Autotype Company acted as sole British agent, produced carbon prints of drawings by the Old Masters in numerous European galleries. He quotes from the Art-Journal of March 1878, pp. 89-90, adding [the prints are produced] with such fidelity as to be scarcely distinguishable from the originals, and at prices bringing them within the range of humble incomes.

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