Lot 8
  • 8

Eugène Cuvelier 1837-1900

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Eugène Cuvelier
  • 'LE CLOVIS'
albumen print, numbered '339' by the photographer in the negative, mounted, titled in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1860s

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

Ulrike Gauss, Henning Weidemann, and Daniel Challe, Eugène Cuvelier (Stuttgart, 1996, in conjunction with the exhibition), no. 339 (this print)

Catalogue Note

Gauss accounts for only one print of this image: the albumen print offered here.  She does not account for the salt print of this image present in the collection as Lot 7.