Olympe Aguado

Trois tirages albuminés individuellement contrecollés sur carton d'époque. Deux tirages avec un timbre sec aux initiales du photographe dans la partie inférieure du carton.

André Jammes/ Eugenia Parry Janis, The Art of French Calotype, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1983, ill. p. 90
Olympe Aguado Photographe (1827 - 1894), cat. expo. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg: Ed. Scheuer, 1997, ill. p.146

Ces trois tirages sont généralement en bon état. Dans l'ensemble, un tirage peu contrasté, un autre avec quelques retouches dans la partie inférieure de l'image et un troisième tirage légèrement jauni et avec de légère rousseurs. These three prints are in good general condition. One print with light contrast, another with light retouching dots near the lower margin and the third print with light yellow tones and light foxing.
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