Napoléon Moreau de Charny (1809-1887)
1862
Crédit est mort
[Pérégrination d'un objectif (Crédit est mort) - Album]

Albumen print, from glass negative
20 x 14.8 cm
 
CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux
Binoche et Giquello, épreuves choisies, 18 november 2010, lot no: 31
 
Album of 11 albumen prints from glass negatives, 200x148mm, titled by the artist. Fine copy dedicated to Mrs Bricheteau.
 
Oversize oblong quatro album, bound in tan buckram board. 355x270 mm. Each copy of the artist's book is labeled by hand, the eleven plates are sometimes slightly raised here in an unusual order with alternative titles in relation to a copy of Ms. Desveaux:
 
Peace of heart (a priest and a young girl)
At the corner of the wood , they forget hunger (three peasants Morvan)
Where is the trust of God: Map of doom (woman with a fortune teller)
In Nivernais, samples of gossips (three spinners)
In the mountains (a man and two women)
In the East: Narguilhé and laziness (author's wife)
At the time spent, messenger (medieval scene with author's wife and daughter)
In the family, the care of a sister (wife and daughter)
At the Cabaret, in the mists (credit is dead)
In the workshop: little work, lots of towels
In town: beware of maids.
 
Grand in-4 oblong ; percaline havane muette. (Cartonnage de l'époque).
 
Chaque exemplaire de ce livre d'artiste est légendé a la main, les onze épreuves parfois légÞrement réhaussées sont ici dans un ordre inhabituel avec des variantes de titres par rapport a l'exemplaire de Mme Desveaux
 
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