Ottomar Anschutz (1846-1907); Maison Foncelle (S. R. Mulder)

Wild animals, 1886-89; Caged lion, late 1880s

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Ottomar Anschutz (1846-1907); Maison Foncelle (S. R. Mulder)
Wild animals, 1886-89; Caged lion, late 1880s
Six albumen prints, five approx. 7¾ x 5¾ in. or the reverse, one 3¾ x 5½ in., each with photographer's credit Ottomar Anschtz, Lissa (Posen), date and reference in the negative, photographer's ink credit stamp on verso; and one albumen print, approx. 6¾ x 9.5/8 in., photographer's ink credit stamp on verso Photographies artistiques Maison Foncelle S. R. Mulder Succr. Rue de Seine No. Paris. (7)

Literature

Jacobson, Etude d'Après Nature: 19th Century Photographs in Relation to Art, p. 169; Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 443

Lot Essay

Anschtz was a German photographer who invented a 000 second shutter, which he used in the 1880s to make unusually naturalistic photographs of the wild animals which he kept on his estate. His studies were used by artists. The animals represented here are a bison, two lions, a tiger with its prey, a standing bear and a dog.

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