Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 106
  • 106

Henri Le Secq 1818-1882

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Le Secq
  • 'CHARTRES' (THREE STATUES)
salt print from a waxed-paper negative, signed, titled, and dated by the photographer in the negative, credited to the photographer, titled, and dated in an unidentified hand in pencil and with the collection stamp of André Jammes on the reverse, matted, 1852

Provenance

Collection of Charles Nègre

By descent to a Nègre family member

Acquired from the above by André Jammes, late 1950s

Sotheby's London, La Photographie.  Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, 27 October 1999, Sale 9316, Lot 84

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Exhibited

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Eugenia Parry Janis and Josiane Sarte, Henri Le Secq, Photographe de 1850 á 1860: Catalogue raisonné de la Collection de la Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, 1986), no. 272, p. 137

French Primitive Photography (Aperture and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969, in conjunction with the exhibition), unpaginated