An Important Collection of Photographs by Eugène and Adalbert Cuvelier

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Lot 32
  • 32

Eugène Cuvelier 1837-1900

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Eugène Cuvelier
  • WINTER LANDSCAPE WITH BUILDINGS
salt print, mounted, matted, circa 1860

Provenance

The collection of John Chandler Bancroft, Middletown, Rhode Island

Gustave J. S. White Co., Auctioneers, Newport, Rhode Island, 1989

Acquired from the above by a New England antiques dealer

To the present owners, 1989

Literature

Another print of this image:

Ulrike Gauss, Henning Weidemann, and Daniel Challe, Eugène Cuvelier (Stuttgart, 1996, in conjunction with the exhibition), no. III/3

Catalogue Note

A cluster of at least three substantial buildings is visible in the background of this photograph.  The largest, a long stone-fronted structure, is too large to be a house, but may be a workshop of some sort.  Like Lot 18, this photograph shows the same compositional sensibility as several landscape drawings by Théodore Rousseau. 

Gauss does not list this salt print in her census, but lists another salt print and an albumen print.