Catalogue 19 juin - Serge Plantureux

PRINCIPLES OF DESCRIPTION AND DUE DILIGENCE
• The cataloguing principles used have been specially established to describe the history
and stigma of authentic positive photographic prints, pictures and not images or late editions. When comparable prints were accessible, the lots offered in this auction have been
compared in quality and priority.
• The identifications have been carefully checked, when a print could not be attributed,
there is an indication of the society where its creator lived.
• The provenance and legitim origin of every lot have been carefully checked in order to
propose to the buyers a peaceful enjoyment of their properties.
• The following cataloguing order is adopted:
• Name of the photographer or atelier, followed by the dates,
• Title, in italic when given by the photographer, with the geographical location and date of
production of the print, the abbreviation “c.” stands for circa,
• Material description, photographic process, dimensions of the print (never the mount) in
mm, height before width, signatures, stamps and captions,
20 June 2015 at 2 pm
Documentary Photography II
• Comments, quotes, history of publications and eventual exhibitions,
• Estimations, the low and high estimates are separated by one or two bid increases. The reserve corresponds to one bid under the low estimate. For example, when lot 314 has an estimation of 300/400 euros, orders and commissions will be accepted from 250 euros, level
where the auction will start.
VIEWING: PARIS, 5, RUE DU PERCHE 03.06 / 08.06.2015
BRUSSELS, 40, RUE DE L’AQUEDUC 12.06 / 18.06.2015
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We are pleased to present you the second catalogue of our two-day photography sale. From all over Europe and overseas, we have received little-known photographic material unearthed from sleeping bookshelves, dog-houses, attics and basements. We include a few gems
from the André Jamme’s Collection, a nice set of photographs of Paris and the Paris Commune
from the Jean-Pierre Faur Collection (a Paris-based bibliophile).
The enjoyment of investigation, combined with rigorous material analysis, has been our daily
bread for the past three months, in Brussels and Montreuil, where five future art market specialists enrolled in professional training with Drouot, together with a young Turkish videoartist joined the laboratory to prepare this catalogue, selecting the photographs as tangible
objects rewarding aesthetic contemplation through their young eyes. The prints that could
not be dated have not been included. Cécile Olleac
Gwenaelle Benon
Christelle Chabrier
Selma Djoudé
Jérémie Oboussier
Ali Deniz Özkan
The Friday 19th June catalogue presents a selection of 267 photographs in chronological
order, questioning if, when Photography was practiced in a continuous present, it was either
nourished or encumbered by a living past. The editing of the catalogue as a Picture book with
piquant juxtapositions was in that sense a prominent critical tool*.
The Saturday 20th June catalogue describes 533 lots, organized by place of origin, without
distinction about the photography’s myriad vernacular applications.
Overall, we offer a total of 800 lots with more than six thousand documentary photographs,
which may be of particular interest to libraries, museums, private collectors, and experienced
and young amateurs.
We plan to organize photography auctions, on a two-day basis, twice a year, in Autumn and
Spring, with the small treasures and finds from Europe and overseas entrusted to us. The next
appointment for amateurs is the Christmas Auction on December 11-12, 2015 .
*”The key here is the twin conviction that photography has an epicenter and that the conventional
tools of art history aren’t of much use in locating it.. Even the most ordinary, unembellished camera
records—perhaps especially those pure products of uninflected camera vision—embody the medium’s
mercurial aesthetic potential. An indication of the sustained vitality of that perception is Michel Frizot’s
recent book, Every Photograph is an Enigma, which might be described as a sketch for a grammar of
the reception of photographs” (Peter Galassi, Pierre de Fenoÿl’s Anonymes: Another Look, 2015).
AUCTION 56 SECOND DAY
Netherlands
267-270
Belgium
271-284
France
285-420
British Isles
421-430
Italy
431-487
Spain
488-499
Maghreb
500-508
Egypt
509-536
Jerusalem
537-545
Syria-Lebanon
546-559
Persian Gulf
560-562
Turkey
563-571
Greece
572-575
Balkans
576-584
DACH
585-604
Bohemia
605-612
Poland
613-616
Baltic Nations
617-624
Nordic Countries
625-631
Russia
632-675
United States
676-733
Mexico
734-766
Cuba
767-769
South America
770-784
Southeast Asia
785-789
China
789-791
Japan
792-794
Africa
795-800
625-631
632-675
617-624
421-430
267-284
285-420
572-584
431-487 563-571
488-499
676-733
585-616
538-559
500-508
509-537
767-769
789-791
792-794
560-562
785-788
764-766
795-800
770-784
AUCTION 56 SECOND DAY: DOCUMENTING SPACE
267
DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER
Flemish milk dogs, Netherlands, c. 1870
Six (6) albumen prints, 185x215 mm to
165x240 mm.
(6) € 400/500
268
ADOLPHE BRAUN (1812-1877)
Canaux d’Amsterdam, 1860s
Two (2) albumen prints, 160x188 mm, on
the same paper mount.
(2) € 200/250
269
BOYER, LÉON & LÉVY
Port of Rotterdam, and La Haye, 1880s
Four (4) albumen prints, 223x278 mm, captioned in the negative, strong tonality.
(4) € 300/400
NETHERLANDS
LOTS 267-270
270
BOYER, OTTO VON BOSCH
Utrecht, Amsterdam, Ile de Marken, 1880s
Eight (8) albumen print, 224x280 mm,
mouted and captioned on the mount, strong
tonality.
(4) € 500/600
271
BOYER, OTTO VON BOSCH
Maison du Diable, Maison du Saumon, Malines,
Waterloo, 1880s
Four (4) albumen prints, 195x253 mm, captioned, strong tonality.
(4) € 300/400
272
BOYER, OTTO VON BOSCH
Ostende and Bruges, 1880s
Six (6) albumen prints, 225x280 mm, mounted,
captioned, strong tonality.
(6) € 500/600
273
ANTHONY D’YPRES (1883-1963)
Album Ostende, 1928
BELGIUM
LOTS 271-284
Eighteen (18) silver prints, 235x295 mm, signed
in the negatives, elegant percaline.
Robert and Maurice Anthony, alias Anthony
d’Ypres documented the season 1928, “Résidence Royale, Kursaal, Gala Chaliapine, Salon du
jeu, la plage, Royal Palace Hotel”.
(18) € 1.500/2.000
274
CHILDREN OF THE FRONTIER
276
On the road, WWI Battle Front, 1915
Belgian and French Children, behind the WWI Battle Front, 1915
Six (6) vintage silver prints, 160x275 mm, mounted. The Franco-American Committee for
the Protection of the Children of the Frontier was organized in order to provide aid to the
destitute children of Belgium and France.
(6) € 400/500
275
COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CHILDREN OF THE FRONTIER
CHILDREN OF THE FRONTIER
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 128x220 mm, mounted. The Franco-American Committee for
the Protection of the Children of the Frontier worked tirelessly to rescue many hundreds of
children from danger zones all along the battle front.
(3) € 300/400
277
COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CHILDREN OF THE FRONTIER
Ruined villages, WWI Battle Front, 1915
Baracks, Portraits of Committee Members, 1915
Seven (7) vintage silver prints, 145x230 mm to 162x275 mm, on mount, some titles and
provenance reference: from Mrs William H. Hill’s archive.
(7) € 400/500
Eight (8) vintage silver prints, 162x278 mm, mounted, some captions. From Mrs William H.
Hill’s archive.
(8) € 400/500
278
JULES LEJEUNE (1885-1946)
280
Le Plat Pays (Mijn vlakke land), 1920s
Pictorialist studies, Liège, 1920s
Pair (2), paper negative and vintage gum print, both prints,
297x325 mm.
Two (2) prints, 1 paper negative and 1 positive print,
297x325 mm.
(2) € 400/500
(2)€ 600/800
279
JULES LEJEUNE (1885-1946)
JULES LEJEUNE (1885-1946)
281
JULES LEJEUNE (1885-1946)
Pictorialist Tree studies, Liège, 1920s
Working at Sea, near Ostend, 1920s
Seven (7) 1920s paper negatives, 297x325 mm.
(7) € 800/1.000
Paper negative, 297x325 mm.
€ 200/300
284
CHARLES RHEIN (1879-1960)
Gevaert stand, Exposition Internationale, Brussels, 1935
282
[ALFRED EISNTEIN (1879-1955)]
Einstein at Villa Savoyarde, De Haan, 1933
Four (4) vintage silver prints, 179x131 mm, perforations
enveloppe de la Nouvelle Gazette de Charleroi. Interesting group of photographs documenting the Einsteins just
arrived in Belgium escaping the Nazis.
(3) € 300/400
283
L. BOUCHER (DÉCORATEUR)
Petits jardins de Ville, Uccle, 1933
50 vintage silver prints, 210x280 mm plus 4 large
300x400 mm in an oblong album, binding defective.
Personal album of a garden architect. The prints are in
good condition.
(50) € 600/800
Ten (10) vintage silver prints,
225x170 mm, mounted, signed and
dated on the prints.
Charles Rhein (1879-1960) was by
then the chief photographer of the
company founded in 1894 in
Antwerp, Belgium, arising from the
workshop for the manufacture of
photographic paper belonging to
Lieven Gevaert. (In 1964, Agfa and
Gevaert merged... with Bayer AG and
Gevaert each holding a 50% interest
in the new operating company).
(10) € 300/400
285
EDOUARD BALDUS (1813-1889)
Hôtel de Ville, Paris, c. 1855
Salt paper print, 270x411 mm, on mount.
Some tradition proposes this interpretation:
Many curious parisians are watching
Queen Victoria's boat trip on the Seine.
Another print at Musée d’Orsay.
€ 500/600
286
attr to. AUGUSTE COLLARD
Passerelle et culée de l’ancien pont St
Charles, ¨Paris, c. 1863
Albumen print, 277x395 mm, mounted.
Ten years earlier, Charles Marville documented the same bridge remains and the
old Paris Hotel-Dieu before the destruction
in 1860s.
€ 300/400
287
BISSON FRERES
Porte Saint-Denis, Paris, late 1850s
Albumen print, 437x360 mm, mounted,
signature stamp.
FRANCE
LOTS 285-420
We can observe some repair work in
progress in the St-Denis street. Another
print at the MET, Metropolitan Museum,
New York.
€ 400/500
288
LOUISE LAFFON (Phot. Lord Byron)
291
A gentleman, hands in the pockets, 1860s
Roger de Beauvoir, Paris, c. 1859
Albumen cdv, 96x57 mm. Paris female photographer Louise Laffon used her address as a studio
name.
€ 100/150
Albumen cdv, 96x60 mm. Close friend of Le
Gray and Dumas.
€ 150/200
292
289
PIERRE PETIT (1831-1909)
Photomontage, Ary Scheffer, Ingres, Delacroix,
Decamps, Delacroix, c. 1860
Two (2) albumen cdvs, 95x55 mm, captioned on
verso.
(2) € 200/250
GUSTAVE LEGRAY (1820-1884)
EUGENE DISDERI (1819-1889)
Rosa Bohneur, Paris, c. 1860
Albumen cdv, stamps.
€ 100/150
293
ETIENNE CARJAT (1828-1906)
Gustave Doré, Paris, c. 1863
290
PIERRE PETIT (1831-1909)
Albumen cdv, 90x52 mm, stamp.
€ 100/150
Proudhon, Paris, c. 1960
Albumen cdv, 94x56 mm, strong color. He said:
“Ou la propriété emportera la République, ou la
République emportera la propriété...” (Either
property will smash the republic or the republic
will smash property...).
€ 100/150
294
ROBERT J. BINGHAM (1824-1870)
Meissonnier, Paris, c. 1860
Albumen cdv, 88x57 mm. Variant print at
Musée d’Orsay.
€ 150/200
295
EUGENE DISDERI (1819-1889)
297
EUGENE DISDERI (1819-1889)
Mme et M. Lemuet, Paris, c.1860
Soldier Verlust, Paris, c.1860
Albumen print, 8 poses sample sheet,
200x232 mm, neg “34628”.
Albumen print, 8 poses sample sheet,
192x236 mm.
€ 200/300
€ 200/300
296
EUGENE DISDERI (1819-1889)
298
EUGENE DISDERI (1819-1889)
M. Delaporte, Paris, c.1860
M. Mazo reading a book, Paris, c.1860
Albumen print, 8 poses, 185x242
mm, “35447”.
€ 200/300
Albumen print, 8 poses sample sheet,
200x232 mm.
€ 200/300
299
PIERRE PETIT, GUSTAVE LE GRAY & alii
Album de cartes de visite, Victor Hugo, Mazzini, Garibaldi et le dr Nélaton, Paris, c. 1860
Thirty (30) albumen cdv’s in an elegant album.
Interesting album with unusual portraits of the
Bonaparte family and various French and italian
artists and politicians: L’Empereur, sa femme et
le petit prince, Prince Napoléon, Victor Hugo,
Alexandre Dumas, Mazzini, Garibaldi avec le
docteur Nélaton.
(30) € 600/700
300
GUSTAVE LE GRAY (1820-1884)
301
GAUDENZIO MARCONI
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, c.1868
Albumen print, 157x215 mm,
mounted.
€ 100/150
302
ÉTUDE POUR PEINTRE
Alexandre Dumas, Paris, 1860
Dispute, Paris, 1870s
Albumen cdv, 96x60 mm, stamp verso, nice
tonality. Remarkable portrait at the very moment
Dumas proposes Le Gray a way out of Paris and
bankruptcy.
€ 400/500
Albumen print, 157x215 mm,
mounted.
€ 100/150
303
GAUDENZIO MARCONI (1841-1885)
Etudes pour peintres, France, c. 1870
Four (4) albumen prints 240x180 mm, mounted
and signed in the negative.
(4) € 500/600
304
FRENCH PRIMITIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
The Spring, France, 1850s
Albumen print from collodion negative,
225x160 mm, mounted.
This print was in the celebrated 1970 Exhibition
French Primitive Photography, reproduced in
the catalogue published by Aperture, 1970,
Minor White editor. After 45 years, the photographer was not identified for sure. Provenance:
André Jammes, Jean-Pierre Faur. € 800/1.000
305
JEAN BAPTISTE IGOUT (1837-C. 1881)
Études pour peintre (album), 1870s
27 albumen prints (16 images each), 210x140 mm. Interesting early catalogue of both male
and female nudes, each contact sheet with 16 poses.
(416) € 1.500/1.800
306
ANACLET VÉRIGNON (c. 1814-c. 1860)
Near Hyères, c. 1854
308
Salt print, 170x255 mm, gold-toned.
We propose to identify the chemist Vérignon,
who developed the Bayard process since
1839-1840, with the Vérignon, student in
Montpellier in 1835, with the administrator
of Hyères in 1860, and the photographer who
sent this print to Duc de Luynes.
€ 400/500
307
LUIGI CRETTÉ (1823-1872)
The mouth of Paglione river, Nice, c. 1859
Albumen print, 145x210 mm, strong tonality.
Gustave Le Gray’s student was among the
proto-photographers of Monaco.
€ 300/400
LUIGI CRETTÉ (1823-1872)
Monaco, Chemin des douaniers, c. 1859
Albumen print, 210x295 and 280x215 mm,
mounted. Early view of Monaco.
€ 500/600
detail of 306
309
LUIGI CRETTÉ
Prince's Palace of Monaco, c. 1859
Albumen print, 210x295 and 280x215 mm,
mounted. “Legend relates that in January 1297
François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, sought
shelter at the castle. On obtaining entry he
murdered the guard, whereupon his men appeared and captured the castle.[5] Thus the
fortress became the stronghold of the
Grimaldi”.
€ 500/600
313
EDOUARD BALDUS
Les Alyscamps (Luma Foundation), c. 1860
Albumen print, 215x285 mm, stamp on the
mount, strong tonality.
€ 200/250
314
310
EDOUARD BALDUS
Cloître Saint-Trophime, Arles, c. 1860
Albumen print, 212x283 mm, stamp on the
mount. This cloître is the Epicenter of French
history of photography.
€ 200/250
CHARLES NÈGRE (1823-1872)
Hyères, 1863
Albumen print, 162x222 mm, blue name stamp on
mount under the print, from the Midi de la France album
project.
€ 500/600
311
312
EDOUARD BALDUS (1813-1889)
Temple de Diane, Nîmes, c. 1860
315
EDOUARD BALDUS
General view of Avignon, c. 1860
Albumen print, 210x280 mm, stamp.
€ 200/250
316
FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER
Albumen print, 215x292 mm, stamp on mount.
€ 200/250
Rocamadour, c. 1860
EDOUARD BALDUS (1813-1889)
Maison Carrée, Nîmes, c. 1860
“The buildings of Rocamadour rise in stages
up the side of a cliff on the right bank of the
Alzou, which here runs between rocky walls
120 metres in height”.
€ 200/250
Albumen print, 215x292 mm, stamp on mount.
€ 200/250
Albumen print, 270x230 mm, on mount.
318
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE
Chéneaux pour l’Opéra, c. 1867
317
Three albumen prints, 265x225 to
390x290 mm, Delmaet & Durandelle
blind-stamp on mounts, strong tonality.
“Along with countless construction
workers, masons, and artisans, some
sixty-five sculptors worked on the statuary and ornamentation of the Opéra”
(MET).
(3) € 1.800/2.000
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE (1839-1917)
Opera Garnier’s construction, c. 1867
Three albumen prints, 265x225 to 390x290 mm,
Delmaet & Durandelle blind-stamp on mounts,
strong tonality.
“Among the most lavish Second Empire monuments was the Paris Opéra, designed by Charles
Garnier. Elaborately decorated in a neo-Baroque
style and devoting as much space and luxe to grand
ceremonial arcades, foyers, and staircases as to the
theater hall proper, Garnier's design was selected
in 1860 from among 171 entries and, once built,
served as a model for many late-nineteenth-century
theaters around the world” (MET).
(3) € 1.800/2.000
319
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE
Chéneau de la lanterne, c. 1867
Albumen print, 265x380 mm, Delmaet
& Durandelle blind-stamp on mount,
strong tonality.
Very rare early print, pre-Siege. The later
prints (1875) bear a negative number
(see Musée d’Orsay).
€ 800/1.000
320
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE
322
Eagle, c. 1867
Decorations, c. 1867
Albumen print, 275x390 mm, Delmaet &
Durandelle blind-stamp on mount, strong
tonality.
Albumen print, 270x385, Delmaet & Durandelle
blind-stamp on mount.
Pre-Siege print.
Pre-Siege print.
€ 600/800
€ 600/800
323
321
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE
LOUIS-EMILE DURANDELLE
Fireplace, c. 1867
Horse, c. 1867
Albumen print, 390x280, Delmaet & Durandelle
blind-stamp on mount, strong tonality.
Albumen print, 340x275 mm, Delmaet &
Durandelle blind-stamp on mount.
Pre-Siege print.
€ 600/800
Pre-Siege print.
€ 600/800
324
CHARLES SOULIER (1840-1875)
Le Point du Jour, Insurrection de Paris, 1871
Two (2) albumen prints, 190x230 mm, printed
labels with titles on mount.
(2) € 400/500
326
CHARLES SOULIER (1840-1875)
Asnières, Grande Rue, Insurrection de Paris, 1871
Two (2) albumen prints, 190x230 mm, printed
labels with titles on mount..
(2) € 400/500
325
CHARLES SOULIER (1840-1875)
Asnières, Insurrection de Paris, 1871
Two (2) albumen prints, 230x190 mm, printed
labels with titles on mount.
(2) € 400/500
327
CHARLES SOULIER (1840-1875)
Chateau de Bécon, Insurrection de Paris, 1871
Two (2) albumen prints, 230x190 mm, printed
labels with titles on mount.
(2) € 400/500
328
POST-UPRISING PHOTOGRAPHER
Hôtel de ville, Paris, 1871
End of 19th century silver print from a damaged negative,
230x290 mm, caption “Hotel de Ville, 1871”. One can read
some titles of the affixed posters: “Emprunt National”.
€ 150/200
329
331
Photographie prise après le désastre, seul grand format qui existe, rue de Rivoli, Paris, 1871
EUGENE APPERT (1830-1891)
Théophile Ferret, Communard, Paris, c. 1870
Very large albumen print, 335x455 mm, mounted,
captioned, dated and signed on the mount, title in
the negative. The statement “seul grand format”
seems correct.
€ 400/500
Albumen cdv, 91x58 mm. Intriguing portrait, the spectacles
and the jacket are a bit old fashion, but the general aspect
could be 20 or 21st century.
€ 100/150
330
HIPPOLYTE-AUGUSTE COLLARD
Barricades, Paris, April-May 1871
Six (6) albumen prints, 220x315 mm, mounted and blindstamped on the mount “Atelier centrale de photographie,
Collard photographe, des ponts et des chausses”.
(6) € 400/500
HENRI LANGEROCK (1830-1915)
332
ALPHONSE LIEBERT (1827-1914)
Ruins of Paris, 1871
Five (5) albumen prints, 180x250 mm, mounted,
signed and titled on the mount.
(5) € 400/500
333
JOHN ETLING & Co, WILSON & Co
Napoléon the IV, or the last Prince Imperial,
London, 1875-1878
334
Victor Hugo, Paris, 1880s
Albumen print, 146x105 mm on Studio
Nadar 1889 cabinet card.
€ 100/150
5 albumen cdv, signed “Napoleon”.
“Born in Paris, he was baptized on 14 June
1856, at Notre Dame Cathedral. His godfather was Pope Pius IX and his godmother
was Queen Victoria”... Twenty years after
Victor Hugo, the exiled Prince uses photography for political campaign: “He remained
a devout Catholic, and retained hopes that
the Bonapartist cause might eventually triumph if the secularising Third Republic
failed”.
“The asteroid moon Petit-Prince was named
after the Prince Imperial in 1998, however
it was also an allusion to the children's book
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery”.
(5) € 250/300
FELIX NADAR (1820-1910)
335
attr. to FELIX NADAR
Emile Zola, Paris, c. 1896
Vintage silver print, 180x127 mm. Variant
of a famous portrait by Nadar, on a Carlo
Brogi cabinet card.
€ 100/150
336
PAUL NADAR (1856-1939)
Stéphane Mallarmé, Paris, [1896]
Silver print (printed 1910s or 1920s),
180x127 mm, captioned: “St. Mallarmé”,
in the handwriting of Paul Valéry.
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé from the library of Paul Valéry, “disciple bien-aimé et
bien-aimant”.
€ 400/500
337
338
JOSEP-MARIA CAÑELLAS (1856-1902)
339
OTTO WEGENER (1849-1922)
A Catalan photographer in France, c. 1888
Pictorialist study, Paris, c. 1900
Two (2) albumen prints, 120x170 mm, numbered and
signed in the negative.
(2) € 200/250
Vintage silver print, 190x230 mm, on paper mount,
signature-stamp.
€ 400/500
JOSEP-MARIA CAÑELLAS (1856-1902)
Street Photographer in Paris, c. 1888
Albumen print, 120x170 mm, numbered and signed
in the negative.
€ 100/150
340
ADOLPHE-LOUIS DONNADIEU (1840-1911)
La Photographie des Objets immergés, Paris, 1901
Eight (8) vintage silver prints, mounted in a volume
in-8, 210x170 mm, printed wrappers. The French
specialist of the Turin Shroud offers us eight underwater dissections of rabbit, snake, cuttlefish, lizard,
chicken, and turtle.
(8) € 800/1.000
342
ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS
Paris, 1902
Three (3) citrate prints, 90x40 to 90x90
mm, some writings.
(3) € 150/200
341
FOLLOWER OF GEORGES DEMENŸ(1850-1917)
The Naked Blacksmith, France, Early 20th century
Celluloid negative, nine positions, 294x208 mm, elegant numbering in ink. Found in a French
fine arts teacher's archive.
€ 500/600
343
J.B. GIRAUD ET A. DUJARDIN
Recueil descriptif et raisonné des principaux objets d'art ayant figuré à l'Exposition rétrospective de Lyon, 1878. In-folio, 49 x 33,5 cm, 83 photogravures, signed copy on papier de
Hollande, signed 1/2 marocco (Marius Magnin). Early elegant photo-book.
€ 600/800
344
345
HENRY D’ALLEMAGNE (1863-1950)
346
HENRY D’ALLEMAGNE (1863-1950)
Cloître Saint-Trophime, Arles, 1888
Cloître Saint-Trophime, Arles, 1888
Platinum print 194x252 mm, mounted and blind
stamped. Provenance: Henry d’Allemagne personnal
documentation.
€ 400/500
Platinum print, 192x254 mm, on same mount.
This group of stamped platinum prints are a recent
discorery, they document Henry d’Allemagne research subject as a student.
€ 400/500
HENRY D’ALLEMAGNE (1863-1950)
Sculptures, Arles, 1888
Platinum print 253x190 mm, mounted and blind
stamped. The famous “Archiviste paléographe” from
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, members of many antiquarian societies was a photographer. € 300/400
347
HENRY D’ALLEMAGNE (1863-1950)
Cloître Saint-Trophime, Arles, 1888
Platinum print 257x190 mm, mounted and blind
stamped.
€ 300/400
348
EUGENE DRUET (1867-1916)
Mirrors arriving at Musée Grévin, c.1900
Large vintage silver print, 280x372 mm.
€ 300/400
349
EUGENE DRUET (1867-1916)
Grevin museum inauguration, Paris
Vintage silver print, 210x170 mm. € 100/150
350
MUSÉE GRÉVIN PHOTOGRAPHER
Napoleon, Paris, c.1900
Vintage silver print, 285x355 mm, blindstamped on the print.
€ 100/150
351
EUGENE DRUET (1867-1916)
Opera at Grevin Museum, Paris, c.1900
Vintage silver print, 280x372 mm.
€ 100/150
352
EUGENE DRUET (1867-1916)
American native, Musée Grévin, c. 1900
Vintage silver print, 350x230 mm, mounted, stamp.
€ 100/150
353
EMMANUEL POTTIER (1864-1921)
Construction du metro, Paris, 1898-1900
355
The Bièvre, river inside Paris, c. 1903
Ten (10) vintage silver prints, 210x150 mm to
242x300 mm, dated and signed in the negative. The first line opened on 19 July 1900,
during the Exposition Universelle.
Thirty (30) vintage citrate prints, about
100x150 mm, in a vintage green percaline
album. Historically the river was heavily industrialized with mills, and supported numerous
tanneries and dye-makers. This album documents the last years and the work when it was
recovered.
€ 400/500
(10) € 200/300
354
INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Construction du metro, Paris, 1898-1900
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 229x170 mm.
Interesting undergroud images.
(3) € 100/150
L. CHRISTY
356
F. ROTHIER
Champagne Pommery, Rheims, c. 1900
Forty (40) printed postcards, 90x140 mm, elegant small album.
€ 50/60
357
358
PIERRE PETIT FILS
359
PIERRE PETIT FILS
Avenue Montaigne, 1910 Great Flood of Paris
Pont des Saint-Pères, 1910 Great Flood of Paris
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 155x225 mm, engraved signature in the mount, titled and
signed in the negative.
(2) € 300/400
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 157x226 mm, engraved signature in the mount, titled, numbered
and signed in the negative.
(2) € 300/400
PIERRE PETIT FILS
360
PICTORIALIST PHOTOGRAPHER
Rue de Seine, 1910 Great Flood of Paris
1910 Great Flood of Paris
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 220x154 mm, engraved signature on the mount and titled in the
negative.
(2) € 300/400
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 167x122 mm, on
pictorialist double mount.
(2) € 300/400
361
362
WARTIME PHOTOGRAPHER
363
MILNER’S PHOTO
Empty place, First World War, France, c. 1915
War booty, Champs Élysées, 14 July 1919
Vintage silver print, 232x292 mm, on a curious WWI
mount.
€ 200/250
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 130x178 mm,
stamped on the back. The first 14 July after the
end of WWI.
(2) € 100/150
WARTIME PHOTOGRAPHER
Art, First World War, France, c. 1915
Vintage silver print, 290x230 mm, on a curious WWI
mount.
€ 200/250
364
JULES-LOUIS BRETON (1872-1940)
Daddy’s Camera, France, c. 1915
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 175x130 mm to
240x296 mm.
(3) 150/200
367
COLONIAL CYANOTYPIST
Colonial life, 1900s
Cyanotype, 170x115 mm.
365
MARINE CYANOTYPIST
Lancement du missile, c. 1910
368
AMATEUR CYANOTYPIST
Old fashion bathing suits, 1910s
Vintage cyanotype, 80x85 mm.
€ 80/100
CAMILLE COROT (1796-1875)
Les Arbres dans la montagne [1921]
Vintage cyanotype, 130x175 mm, titled, pencil.
€ 80/100
366
€ 50/60
Salt paper contact print of the original
Corot 1856 cliché-verre with large margins, 215x180 mm. Proof print of 1921
Sagot-Le Garrec edition.
€ 500/600
369
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (1814-1875)
La Précaution Maternelle, [1921]
Salt paper contact print of the original
Millet 1862 cliché-verre with large margins, 320x290 mm. Proof print of 1921
Sagot-Le Garrec edition..
€ 500/600
370
STUDIO P. DELBO
Marie Vassilieff’s Cocteau as a Virgin, 1930
Vintage silver print, 205x170 mm, stamped, verso.
€ 50/60
371
[JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)]
Personal photographic documentation, 1900s
Four (4) vintage silver prints, 256x222 mm, “George
Allié” stamp, verso. Early works painted 1917-1921,
photographed in the 1920s.
(4) € 600/800
372
[JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)]
James Ensor’s art, 1920s
Vintage silver print, 124x145 mm, captioned, verso.
€ 50/60
373
METROPHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY
Metrophotographic investigation, Paris, 1928
Five (5) vintage silver prints, 224x285 mm, various
stamps "Le Journal, 7 juillet 1928" "D.A.A". "80
Rue Taibout, PARIS".
Early example of applied photographic processes
to document and investigate painting through two
black and white enlargements. Those tangible
prints produced at 80, rue Taitbout in Paris are actually extremely intriguing.
Provenance: “Le Journal”, belonging to Yola Letellier’s husband, see lot 380.
(5) € 500/600
374
POSSIBLY ENGLISH AUTOCHROMIST
Study in red, 1910s
1/4 plate autochrome, 60x120 mm. A rare subjet, is
it a depression ?
€ 400/500
375
LÉON GIMPEL (1873-1948)
Bazar de l’Hotel de Ville, Paris, Christmas 1925
1/4 plate autochrome. From a famous series of the
leading autochromist. Assisted by his colleague Fernand Monpillard, Gimpel modified the autochromes
to produce "instant" colour pictures.
€ 800/1.000
376
Circle of LÉON GIMPEL
Sunset, 1910s
1/4 plate autochrome.
€ 400/500
377
FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER
At Home, France, c. 1920
Two (2) round vintage silver prints, diameter 150 mm,
on black paper mount.
Since WWI more women practiced photography: “With
men away at war, many women ran their homes alone.
They cared for children and older relatives, managed
money and often had a job as well” (Changing Lives).
€ 200/300
378
PAUL VALERY (1871-1945)
Between Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach at
The Ulysses Dinner, 27 June 1929, a swim with
Duhamel, a sunbath with Aldous Huxley and other
pages of his photographic diary, 1920s-1930s
379
380
Gigi’s personnal snapshots, Deauville-Paris, 1920s
Seven (7) vintage silver prints, 67x90 to 48x38 mm,
some captions on the back.
Twelve (12) vintage snapshots, 80x80 to 138x98
mm, captioned by Paul Valery. “To celebrate the
publication of the French translation of Ulysses,
Adrienne Monnier organized a luncheon at the
Léopold Restaurant in Les Vaux de Cernay, a small
village near Versailles. The menu lists such delicacies as "Le Paté Léopold." Among the guests at
Monnier's "Déjeuner Ulysse" were some of the
most prominent figures in French literature at that
time: Léon-Paul Fargue, Paul Valéry, Jules Romains,
and Philippe Soupault. Also in attendance was
Samuel Beckett ; the rumor is that he got excessively drunk at lunch” (Univ. of Buffalo).
381
(12) € 2.500/3.000
382
MARC ALLEGRET (1874-1947)
René Crevel, Paris, 1935
Vintage silver print, 138x98 mm, annotation. From
marc Allegret’s archive. He learnt photography with
Man Ray.
€ 200/300
YOLA LETELLIER (1908-
Yola Letellier was Colette’s model for her character
Gigi, also posing for Man Ray.
(7) € 600/800
HENRI MANUEL (1874-1947)
Comtesse de Noailles, Paris, c. 1922
Album card, 138x98 mm, mounted, printed signature.
€ 100/150
GEORGES LOUIS ARLAUD (1869-1944)
Nude, Lyon, c. 1920
Vintage silver print, 160x220 mm, signed on the print
in white ink, silver mirror.
GL Arlaud publia, en 1920, Vingt Études de Nu en
Plein Air, avec une préface de Saint Pol Roux, Paris,
éditions Horos.
€ 100/150
385
GERMAINE KRULL (1897-1985)
Pig-picking, Auvergne, c. 1930
383
GERMAINE KRULL (1897-1985)
Vintage silver print, 185x160 mm,
stamp.
€ 200/250
Marché, Quimper, 1930
Vintage silver print, 168x230 mm, stamp
of the photographer, verso. We can guess
behing the fishmongers, with Breton headdresses, an advertising for automobiles
Berliet.
€ 300/400
384
GERMAINE KRULL (1897-1985)
Route de Paris à la Méditerrannée, 1930
Vintage silver print, 170x160 mm. Document for a Firmin-Didot publication. From
the Florent Fels’ collection. € 300/400
386
GERMAINE KRULL (1897-1985)
Route de la Méditerrannée, 1930
2 vintage silver prints, 222x138 mm,
224x135 mm.
(2) € 400/500
387
GERMAINE KRULL (1897-1985)
Sunbathing, Nice, 1930
Vintage silver print, 160x142 mm,
stamp. From Florent Fels.
€ 300/400
388
389
390
MONSIEUR X
391
MONSIEUR X
One, Two, Summer in France, 1930s
Fresh Water, Normandy, 1930s
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm.
Cf. Alexandre Dupouy, Collection privée de
monsieur X, 2007.
(2) € 200/250
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm.
Cf. Alexandre Dupouy, Collection privée de
monsieur X, 2007.
(2) € 200/250
MONSIEUR X
392
MONSIEUR X
Beach Holydays, Normandy, 1930s
Playing in the woods, 1930s
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm.
(2) € 200/250
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm.
MONSIEUR X
(2) € 200/250
393
MONSIEUR X
Honest portraits, 1930s
Personal diary of Monsieur X, 1930s
Six (6) vintage silver print, 178x238 mm.
(6) € 200/300
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm.
(2) € 150/200
396
ALEXANDRE TRAUNER
Atmospheric Paris street, 1938
Vintage silver print, 187x180 mm, white
margins, stamped. From Trauner’s
archive.
€ 200/300
394
395
ALEXANDRE TRAUNER (1906-1993)
397
ALEXANDRE TRAUNER
Location scout for Hotel du Nord, Paris, 1938
Dépannage, 1938
Vintage silver print, 190x180 mm, photographer’s
stamp, verso. From Trauner’s archive.
€ 200/300
Vintage silver print, 240x180 mm. From
Trauner’s archive.
€ 200/300
ALEXANDRE TRAUNER
Location scout for Hotel du Nord, Paris, 1938
Vintage silver print, 160x160 mm. From Trauner’s
archive.
€ 200/300
398
ALEXANDRE TRAUNER
22, a street number in Paris, 1938
Vintage silver print, 240x180 mm. From
Trauner’s archive.
€ 200/300
399
GUY LE BOYER
Rail study, France, 1936
Vintage silver print, 210x220 mm, stamped.
Rail study for the illustrated magazine “La Vie
du rail”.
€ 100/150
400
402
Boat Hulls, Mooring wires, 1954
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 180x240 mm,
signature and date, verso. Elisabeth Sax participated to several Hans Arp catalogues in
the early 1960s.
(2) € 200/250
GUY LE BOYER
Locomotive study, France, 1936
Vintage silver print, 210x170 mm, stamped.
Rail study for the illustrated magazine “La Vie
du rail”.
€ 100/150
ELISABETH SAX
403
ELISABETH SAX
Tree and other studies, 1954
Six (6) vintage silver prints, 240x165 mm,
stamp and date, verso.
(6) € 200/250
401
EMMANUEL SOUGEZ (1889-1972)
Viaduct, France, 1930
Vintage silver print, 210x220 mm, mounted,
retouched, cropping annotations. Architectural study for a Firmin-Didot publication.
From the Florent Fels collection.
€250/300
404
ELISABETH SAX
Wood grain and other studies, 1954
Six (6) vintage silver prints, 175x230 mm,
stamp and date, verso.
(6) € 200/250
405
408
THERESE LE PRAT (1895-1966)
Compagnie de Jean Dasté, 1960
Vintage silver print, 290x390 mm.
406
Six (6) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm,
“Studio Arax” stamps, “Millet” “Thomas”.
First held in 1948, the contest was initially
only for amateur male bodybuilders. A class
for professionals after 1952. (6) € 300/400
€ 300/350
THERESE LE PRAT (1895-1966)
Homme pour homme, c.1950
Four (4) vintage silver prints, 300x300 mm, stamps,
captioned “Homme pour homme”, verso. Bertold
Brecht’s “Mann ist Mann” in Paris.
(4) € 200/250
407
KRIKOR DJOLOLIAN-ARAX (1897-1975)
Preparing Amateur Mr. Universe, 1950s
409
KRIKOR DJOLOLIAN-STUDIO ARAX
More Amateurs Mr. Universe, 1950s
Six (6) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm,
stamps, “Bernier”.
(6) € 300/400
410
KRIKOR DJOLOLIAN-STUDIO ARAX
The Full Monty (Mr. Universe), 1950s
Six (6) vintage silver prints, 240x180 mm,
stamps, “Duranton”.
(6) € 300/400
FRENCH THEATER PHOTOGRAPHER
African atmosphere, theatrical set, 1960s
Vintage silver print, 210x390 mm.
€ 100/150
411
ROBERT DOISNEAU
414
Night study, Marchand de ballons, c.
1960
American soldiers in Paris, [1944]
Contact silver print, 83x82 mm, printed
1960s, numbered “762”.
€ 200/250
412
ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994)
Vintage contact silver print, 83x82 mm,
numbered “20087”.
€ 200/250
415
Vintage silver print, 230x187 mm, French
and Italian captions, stamps. The term
"radiesthesia" first entered English in the
1930s, borrowed from the French word
“radiesthésie”.
€ 300/400
Vintage silver print, 240x180 mm, stamps.
Passing on a secret message. The stage
may be replayed soon after Paris’ Liberation.
€ 300/400
ROBERT DOISNEAU
Tout est factice, [1944]
Later silver print (printed 1970s), 240x180
mm, stamp. An ironic showing shops in
occupied Paris, worried about possible
visitors desperate for food.
€ 300/400
ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994)
Mrs Maury with pendulum, Paris, 1948
Resistance in occupied Paris, 1944
413
ROBERT DOISNEAU
416
ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994)
Sunday (Dimanche), Paris, c. 1948
Vintage silver print, 245x180 mm, stamp.
Something must be happening or just happened, people are waiting.
€ 300/400
417
JEAN DIEUZAIDE (1921-2003)
419
Sulky race, France, c. 1952
Tauromachy, Spain, c. 1952
Vintage silver print on papier velours (velvet paper),
179x240 mm, signed on the old mount, which will
be joined, some foxing.
€ 500/600
Vintage silver print on papier velours (velvet paper),
180x240 mm, signed on the old mount.
Early work of Jean Dieuzaide, winner of Niepce
prize in 1955 and Nadar prize in 1961.
€ 500/600
418
JEAN DIEUZAIDE (1921-2003)
JEAN DIEUZAIDE (1921-2003)
420
LAURE ALBIN GUILLOT (1879-1962)
Cylinders, France, c. 1952
Tree Study, France, c. 1950
Vintage silver print on papier velours (velvet paper),
237x177 mm, signed on old mount.
€ 500/600
Vintage Fresson print, 180x142 mm, signed.
€ 400/500
421
EMILY FINN née AINSWORTH
Album of Mrs Fynn and family, 1870’s-1880’s
Thirty-five (35) cdv albumen portraits, all with
pencilled identification. There are several people
named Emily Fynn at that time, Nietzsche met
one of them.
(35) € 800/1.000
422
STEPHEN THOMPSON
British Museum Collections, London, 1872
Two (2) albumen prints, 202x274 mm, strong
tonality.
(2) € 100/150
BRITISH ISLES
LOTS 421-430
423
ANTOINE CLAUDET (1797-1867)
Adelaide, London, 1853
Stereoscopic daguerreotype, vintage leather case
with scrapped manuscript label.
€ 1.200/1.500
424
CLAUDE MARIE FERRIER (1811-1889)
428
Flax Machinery, Crystal Palace, 1851
Fireworks display at the Crystal Palace, London, 1930’s
Salt print from an albumen on glass negative, 153x220
mm, caption on mount.
€ 600/800
425
ENGLISH PRESS AGENCY
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 250x200 mm,
Daily Mirror and Trampus credits.
€ 150/200
CLAUDE MARIE FERRIER (1811-1889)
Cotton Machinery, Crystal Palace, 1851
Salt print from an albumen on glass negative, 152x208
mm, caption on mount.
€ 600/800
426
429
The Thinker, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960
Vintage silver print, 245x195 mm, collection
stamp : “M. Bergut”.
CLAUDE MARIE FERRIER (1811-1889)
Philiosophical Instruments, Crystal Palace, 1851
Salt print from an albumen on glass negativt, 178x148
mm, caption on mount.
€ 800/1.000
Circle of ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Little known portrait.
430
€ 100/150
ENGLISH PRESS AGENCY
Jack Doyle Goes Into Training, Feb. 20,
1934
427
FRANK SUTCLIFFE (1853-1941)
Vintage silver print, 184x254 mm, “Associated Press Photos” agency stamp.
Cloudy Woodlands, Whitby, c. 1890
Platinum print, 200x152 mm, stamped.
€ 200/250
€ 100/150
431
AMALFI COAST ARTIST
Pifferaro, near Sorrento, 1870s
Gouache supposedly on albumen print, 224x139
mm, on mount, arabic gum varnish.
€ 400/500
432
GIORGIO SOMMER
Carro Sicilano, Palermo, c. 1895
ITALY
LOTS 431-487
Finely hand colored albumen print, 200x256 mm, on
mount, titled, verso.
€ 80/100
433
PHOTOGLOB ZURICH
Maccheronaio, Napoli, c. 1895
Photomecanical print, 225x166 mm.
€ 80/100
434
435
T. CARR
437
The Rape of the Sabines, Florence, c. 1852
Parete della Basilica, Pompei, 1852
Varnished salt print from primitive albumen
glass negative, 195x135 mm, title and credit
on a printed label.
€ 300/400
Salt paper print, 220x285 mm, Italian caption on
mount.
€ 400/500
T. CARR
438
Varnished salt print, 200x125 mm, partial
cleaning of the albumen on glass negative gave
the black matte painting effect.
€ 500/600
T. CARR
Hercules Vanquishing the Centaur, , c. 1852
Vernish salt print from albumen glass negative,
198x150 mm, mounted.
€ 300/400
Attr. to JAMES ANDERSON
Monte Mario, c. 1852
Perseus Shows the Head of Medusa, c. 1852
436
ALFRED NORMAND (1822-1909)
Salt paper print, 185x250 mm, French caption on
mount, ink.
€ 200/250
439
Attr. to GIACOMO CANEVA (1813-1865)
Ruines d’Ostie, Italy, c. 1852
Salt paper print, 234x320 mm, French caption on
mount, ink.
€ 200/250
440
441
No attribution
443
Moise, San Pietro in Vincoli, 1850s
Farnese Hercules, Naples, c. 1875
Albumen print, 365x300 mm, marginal silvering, magnificent tonality.
€ 400/500
Three (3) albumen prints, two 250x198
mm, credit in negative, mounted rectoverso on the same cardboard, and the third,
150x110 mm, blindstamp on mount.
Circle of BISSON FRÈRES
The Farnese Hercules is an ancient statue
of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy
made in the early third century AD and
signed by Glykon,[1] from an original by
Lysippos
(3) € 200/250
Moise , San Pietro in Vincoli, 1860s
Albumen print, 350x277 mm, pencilled
French caption on mount.
€ 200/300
442
GIORGIO SOMMER (1834-1914)
CHARLES SOULIER (1840-1875)
Moise , San Pietro in Vincoli, 1868
Albumen print, 403x350 mm, signed in pencil by the artist on the mount, recto.
€ 200/300
444
ALPHONSE BERNOUD (1820-1889)
Farnese Hercules, Naples, c. 1860
Albumen, 232x190 mm, mounted, noce
tonality.
€ 200/250
445
446
JAMES ANDERSON (1813-1877)
448
Panorama of Rome, c. 1857
Le Forum romain, early 1850
Albumen print, 170x240 mm, Josef Spithover blindstamp on mount, nice tonality.
€ 300/400
Large albuminized salt paper print, 338x460 mm,
on paper mount, blindstamp and French caption. Intriguing date hiding in the nagative (top of the roof,
left of Campidoglio campanile): “1849”. Cuccioni
printed caneva and other artists ealy negatives.
JAMES ANDERSON (1813-1877)
Saint-Peter from Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, c. 1857
€ 1.800/2.000
Albumen print, 178x246 mm, Josef Spithover blindstamp on mount.
€ 300/400
447
TOMASO CUCCIONI (1790-1864)
TOMASO CUCCIONI (1790-1864)
Temple dit de Vesta, c. 1858
albumen print, 220x310 mm, mounted, blindstamped
and captioned “Temple de Vesta, aujourd’hui Santa
Marie del Sole”. One man sitting.
€ 300/400
449
TOMASO CUCCIONI (1790-1864)
Piazza di Spagna, Rome, c. 1858
Albumen print, 315x225 mm, blindstamp on mount,
French caption: “Colonne de l’Immaculée Conception”.
€ 300/400
450
GIOACCHINO ALTOBELLI (1814-1878)
452
ALROBELLI & MOLINS
Benedizione papale, Piazza S. Pietro, c. 1857
Piazza del Popolo, Rome, 1850s
Albumen print, 270x385 mm, on bristol paper
mount. Easter Benediction. Another (slightly
shorter) print in the B.N.C.R.; Archivio Fotografico Raccolta Ceccarius.
€ 400/500
Albumen print, 255x368 mm, gold-toned, stamped
on mount, pleasant tonality. In the shadow stands
a Papal Zouave., right.
€ 600/800
453
JAMES ANDERSON (1813-1877) attr.
Tempietto, Rome, 1850s
451
TOMASO CUCCIONI (1790-1864)
Chateau St. Ange, c. 1858
Albumen print, 230x317 mm, blindstamp on
mount, nice tonality.
€ 300/400
Albumen print, 295x215 mm, gold-toned,
mounted, captioned on the back, strong tonality.
The so-called Tempietto (Italian: "small temple") is
a small commemorative tomb (martyrium) built by
Donato Bramante, possibly as early as 1502, in the
courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio.
€ 400/500
454
455
TOMASO CUCCIONI (1790-1864)
456
No attribution
Cloister of St. John Lateran, c. 1860
Cloister of St. John Lateran, 1850s
Albumen print, 197x251 mm, blindstamp
on mount, nice tonality.
€ 300/400
Albuminized salt print, 170x246 mm,
paper mount, number “35” in ink on the
picture.
€ 300/400
ADRIANO DE BONIS
Cloister of St. John Lateran, Rome, c. 1860
Albumen print, 187x245 mm, paper
mount, caption in pencil and stamp “AdB”,
verso.
€ 300/400
457
No attribution
Cloister of St. John Lateran, c. 1860
Albumen print, 224x310 mm, loose, Italian
caption verso, strong tonality.
€ 100/150
458
No attribution
460
Piazza di San Marco, late 1850s
Cloister of St. John Lateran, 1860s
Albumen print, 194x250 mm,handwritten
caption in Italian on mount. Adriano de
Bonis was attributed a very similar composition, without character.
€ 200/250
459
CARLO NAYA (1816-1882)
ANTONIO PERINI (1830-1879)
Four (4) albumen prints, 220x270 mm, mounted
and titled on the mount.
(4) € 500/600
461
ANTONIO PERINI (1830-1879)
Views of Venice, c. 1870
Views of Venice, late 1850s
Eight (8) albumen prints, 135x180 mm,
captioned and blindstamped on mounts,
good tonality.
(8) € 200/250
Four (4) albumen prints, 270x220 mm, mounted
and titled on the mount.
(4) € 500/600
462
GIORGIO SOMMER (1834-1914)
Hotel de Rome, Naples, c. 1860
Albumen print, 245x345 mm, handwritten captions on
mount, verso.
€ 300/400
463
GIORGIO SOMMER (1834-1914)
Funeral ceremony in Naples, 1870s
Large albumen print, 275x375 mm.
464
€ 100/150
GIORGIO SOMMER (1834-1914)
Mt Vesuvius Funicular Station, 1880
Albumen print, 275x375 mm. "Funiculì, Funiculà" was
composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to commemorate the
opening of the funicular cable car.
€ 100/150
465
GIORGIO SOMMER (1834-1914)
Tempio di Nettuno, Paestum, 1865
Albumen print, 378x276 mm, mounted, numbered and titled in the negative, blindstamp.
Early example of Sommer’s XXL format.
€ 300/400
466
GIORGIO SOMMER
Museo di Napoli, 1870s
Eight (8) albumen prints, 200x250
mm, mounted, numbered, titled and
signed in the negative. Provenance:
the collection Noël Bouton (18601954).
(8) € 200/250
468
GIORGIO SOMMER (1834-1914)
Impronti umani, Pompeii, 1870s
467
EDIZIONI BROGI ()
Carro Siciliano, Palermo, 1870s
Albumen print, 194x250 mm, on
mount. Provenance: the collection
Noël Bouton.
€ 80/100
Five (5) albumen prints, 198x250 mm, titled and
captioned on the negatives. Provenance: the collection Noël Bouton.
(5) € 300/400
469
MARRIANI , T LEONE
470
GIOVANNI CRUPI (1859-1925)
Taormina, Siracusa, 1870s
Etna and Taormina, c. 1890
Five (5) albumen prints,
198x250 mm, titled and captioned on the negatives, and
two (2) photogravures. Provenance: the collection Noël
Bouton.
(7) € 300/400
Seven (7) albumen prints, one large albumen print,
275x385 mm, numbered, titled and signed in the
negative, and six (6) smaller 230x170 mm, strong
tonality.
(7) € 400/500
471
CARLO NAYA
Type of a Gondolier, Venice, 1870s
Albumen print, 154x110 mm, English captionblindstamp “Proprieta artistica”.
€ 300/400
472
GIOVANNI CRUPI (1859-1925)
475
Costumi siciliani, Italy, c. 1890
Bust, Sicily, c. 1890
Four (4) Albumen prints, 165x120 mm,
numbered, titled and signed in the negative.
Albumen print, 154x110 mm, blindstamp
“Proprieta artistica”.
€ 400/500
(4) € 200/300
473
474
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN
GUGLIELMO PLÜSCHOW
476
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN
Taormina, c. 1890
Nun, Italy, c. 1885
Albumen print, 223x168 mm, titled on the
negative.
€ 400/500
Albumen print, 165x108 mm, mounted and
blindstamp “Proprieta artistica”.
€ 500/600
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN
Profile, Sicily, c. 1890
Albumen print, 225x170 mm, two wet
stamps of the photographer.
€ 600/800
477
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN
Naked Feet, Italy, c. 1885
Albumen print, 220x165 mm, mounted.
€ 500/600
478
FOTOCINEPRESS AND OTHERS
Boyhood, Italy, c. 1960
Four (4) Vintage silver print, 180x115 mm, stamps
on three
(4) € 200/250
479
RAOUL CELLY (1902-1975)
Venice, 1937
481
GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER IN SICILY
Sicilian children, 1930
Vintage silver print, 230x170 mm, numbered, titled and signed in the negative.
Vintage silver print, 180x235 mm, mounted, titled,
dated and signed (illegible) in the mount.
€ 200/250
€ 200/250
480
No attribution
Girlhood, Buffalas, South Europe, 1960s
Two (2) vintage silver print, 300x240 mm.
(2) € 100/150
482
AGENCIA ROMANI
Children’s life, Italy, 1950s
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 230x180, 210x180
and 165x230 mm, stamped on the back.
(3) € 150/200
485
MARCELLO GEPPETTI (1933-1998)
Sophia Loren con suo autista, Rome, 1961
483
Vintage silver print, 240x176 mm, Geppetti’s
stamp on the back.
€ 300/400
MARIO GIACOMELLI (1925-2000)
Title, Senigallia, c. 1960
Vintage silver print, 235x320 mm, stamp,
handwritten annotations by the photographer. A working print.
€ 600/800
484
486
Sophia Loren, Rome, c. 1965
Vintage silver print, 236x180 mm, agency’s
stamp.
€ 100/150
MARIO GIACOMELLI (1925-2000)
Title, Senigallia, c. 1960
Vintage silver print, 210x275 mm, stamp,
handwritten annotations by the photographer. A working print.
€ 600/800
KEYSTONE PRESS AGENCY
487
WERNER ECKELT (1914-1990)
Sofia Loren, Rome, c. 1967
Vintage silver print, 237x180 mm, Eckelt’s
wet stamp on the back.
€ 200/300