Details
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE (1839-1917)
Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris (1865-72)
Paris: Ducher et cie, 1875-81. Commissioned by Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier, Architect.
4 volumes of 8, the 4 comprising the complete photographic atlas (lacking 2 vols. each of text, 1878 & 1881, and lithographs, 1880), containing 115 albumen prints from glass plate negatives. Including: 35 albumen prints in Statues Décoratives (Groupes et Bas-Reliefs) (1876); 45 albumen prints in Sculpture Ornementale (1876); 20 albumen prints in Peintures Décoratives (1876); and 15 albumen prints in Bronzes (1875). The majority numbered, each numbered sequentially in the negative; each on a mount with letterpress credit, title, Ducher et cie credit and sequential number. Varying sizes up to 14¾ x 11in. and the reverse, each mount 24.3.4 x 17¾in. Each volume includes: Title sheet and Table of Contents sheet. Oblong folios, red cloth covers, 2 vols. with marbled end papers, gilt-impressed lettering. Most plates very rich with artist's retouching, slight oxidation, mounts with some foxing, covers lightly scuffed with corners bumped and spines worn. A very good set. (4)
Literature
See The Truthful Lens, p. 202, no. 20 (cat. section) for full description of the project; Photography Until Now, p. 101 for plate 31 in Sculpture Ornementale; A Personal View, p. 110, pl. 27; and Photography and Architecture, p. 20 for biographical data.
