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| 1. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1878 Title page for Charles Garnier, "Le Nouvel Opera de Paris par Charles Garnier, Volume 1", (Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1878) Title page Source requested |
| 2. |  | 1875 (published) [Intérieur de l'Agence des travaux] Woodblock illustration Google Books Charles Nuitter, Le Nouvel Opera, (Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1875), p.22. |
| 3. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 General View Taken from the Small Staircase; Construction of the Paris Opéra Albumen print, from wet collodion on glass negative 28.2 x 38.4 cm (image) 37.8 x 48.9 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Museum number: E.2343-1990 |
| 4. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1875 (published) The state of work in 1863 {Etat des travaux en 1863] Woodblock illustration Google Books Charles Nuitter, Le Nouvel Opera, (Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1875), p.28. This woodcut is based upon an 1867 photograph by Louis-Emile Durandelle. A copy of the photograph is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London [Museum number: E.2343-1990]. |
| 5. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 View of the East Side; Construction of the Paris Opéra Albumen print, from wet collodion on glass negative 28.2 x 38.4 cm (image) 37.8 x 48.8 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Museum number: 913-1951 |
| 6. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 Threshold of the Main Entrance; Construction of the Paris Opéra Albumen print, from a collodion on glass negative 28.2 x 38.4 cm (image) 37.8 x 48.9 cm (mount) Victoria and Albert Museum Museum Number: E.2349-1990 |
| 7. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1866 (ca) Opera construction, Paris Albumen print 39 x 29 cm The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 90 Mounted, numbered 160, blind-stamp, foxing. Very rare image. In the variant published in the 1876 set of albums, with the same neg number, the sculptor at work has a white blouse. |
| 8. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1866 Le Nouvel Opera de Paris-Sculpteur Autravail Albumen print 14 3/4 x 11 Lee Gallery (V1018) Title and photographer's name printed on center of mount under print. |
| 9. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1875 (published) [Sculpture de la corniche] Woodblock illustration Google Books Charles Nuitter, Le Nouvel Opera, (Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1875), p.52. This woodcut is based upon an 1867 photograph by Louis-Emile Durandelle. |
| 10. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1866 Ten workers at the new Paris Opera, Paris Albumen print, from glass negative 39.4 x 27 cm CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux Binoche et Giquello, épreuves choisies, 18 november 2010, lot no: 14 Studio stamp embossed on mount. La défaite de Sedan, la fin de l'Empire, le siÞge de Paris et la commune interrompirent les travaux de construction ainsi que la publication de l'album qui ne parut que 10 ans plus tard. Les épreuves de la Première époque sont trÞs rares. |
| 11. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 (ca) Opera Garnier in construction, Paris Albumen print 27 x 35.2 cm The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 91 Delmaet & Durandelle blind-stamp on mount. of exceptional opulence, the style is monumental and considered Second-Empire Beauxarts style with eclectic Neo-Baroqueornamentation. |
| 12. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 (ca) Opera Garnier South Facade nearly achieved, Paris Albumen print 27 x 39.5 cm The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 92 Delmaet & Durandelle blind-stamp on mount. Two gilded figural groups, Harmony and Poetry crown the apexes of the facade's left and right avant-corps, both made of gilt copper electrotype. |
| 13. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 (ca) Pavillon des abonnés, Paris Albumen print 27 x 39 cm The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 93 This pavillion was designed to allow subscribers direct access from their carriages to the interior of the building. |
| 14. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 (ca) Avant-corps of the administration Albumen print 27.4 x 39.4 cm The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 94 |
| 15. |  | Delmaet & Durandelle 1868-1869 (ca) Sculptor Amié Millet with "Apollo Crowning Dance and Poetry," Full-scale plaster model for bronze statue mounted on the Paris Opera's Flytower Apex. Albumen print 28 x 33 cm George Eastman Museum Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex collection Gabriel Cromer |
| 16. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1875-1881 Le Nouvel Opera de Paris. Statues Decoratives Albumen print 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 in Lee Gallery Image courtesy of the Lee Gallery (www.leegallery.com) |
| 17. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1875 (published) [Groupe de M. Millet] Woodblock illustration Google Books Charles Nuitter, Le Nouvel Opera, (Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1875), p.45. This woodcut is based upon an 1867 photograph by Louis-Emile Durandelle. |
| 18. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1865-1872 (ca) Ornamental Scupture Albumen print, from wet collodion negative 28.10 x 38.10 cm (11 1/16 x 15 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art John L. Severance Fund, Accession No.: 1990.116 |
| 19. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1870 (ca) Modthles de décor en plâtre sur le chantier de construction de l'Opéra de Paris Tirages sur papier albuminé d'après négatifs sur verre au collodion 20 x 28 cm environ Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Estampes et Photographie. Va 284 folio, tome 6. Don Paul Blondel |
| 20. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1875 Decorative Details from the Paris Opera House Albumen print 10 1/2 x 14 ins (26.67 cm x 35.56 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of Lynn Kirshbaum, 2004.118 |
| 21. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1867 Modeles en plâtre destinés au décor du théâtre du Vaudeville Tirage sur papier albuminé d'après négatif sur verre au collodion 38 x 27 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Estampes et Photographie. Eo 98 folio, tome 2. Don Paul Blondel |
| 22. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1865-1872 Chapiteau des colonnes du grand foyer, plate 28 [Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale] Albumen print, from wet collodion-on-glass negative, gold-toned 17 5/8 x 24 1/2 ins (44.77 cm x 62.23 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of anonymous donors, 2002.138 |
| 23. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1865-1872 Chapiteau des colonnes du vestibule, plate 24 [Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale] Albumen print, from wet collodion-on-glass negative, gold-toned 17 5/8 x 24 1/2 ins (44.77 cm x 62.23 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of anonymous donors, 2002.139 |
| 24. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1865-1872 Chapiteau des colonnes et des pilastres de la salle, plate 30 [Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale] Albumen print, from wet collodion-on-glass negative, gold-toned 17 5/8 x 24 1/2 ins (44.77 cm x 62.23 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of anonymous donors, 2002.140 |
| 25. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1866 (ca) Lion Albumen print 26.5 x 21.4 cm The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 89 Mounted, blind-stamped on the mount Spring 1861, Charles Garnier, grand Prix de Rome in architecture, won the competition to build the new opera. Invested at the head of the construction site, he chose Delmaet & Durandelle, for documenting the work in progress since 1865. over one hundred and fifty photographs were made until unfortunately the Prussian attacked. Émile Durandelle and his wife Clémence Jacob-Delmaet eventually published a set of albums in 1876. These prints and the next lots are extremly rare pre-1870 prints given to the architects. |
| 26. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1875-1881 Le Nouvel Opera de Paris. Sculpture Ornementale Albumen print 10 3/4 x 14 11/16 Lee Gallery (T1259) Series title, editor's and photographer's credits printed on mount on recto. |
| 27. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1879 Sculpture Ornementale Albumen print 8 1/4 x 11 in Lee Gallery Image courtesy of the Lee Gallery (www.leegallery.com) |
| 28. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1865-1872 Masques du vestibule circulaire, plate 36 [Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale] Albumen print, from wet collodion-on-glass negative, gold-toned 17 5/8 x 24 1/2 ins (44.77 cm x 62.23 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of anonymous donors, 2002.141 |
| 29. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1875 Masked Figures from the Paris Opera House Albumen print 11 1/8 x 15 ins (28.26 cm x 38.1 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of Lynn Kirshbaum, 2004.117 |
| 30. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1865-1872 Masques du vestibule circulaire, plate 35 [Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale] Albumen print, from wet collodion-on-glass negative, gold-toned 17 5/8 x 24 1/2 ins (44.77 cm x 62.23 cm) SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of anonymous donors, 2002.142 |
| 31. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1866 (ca) Masks Albumen print 26.5 x 21.4 cm The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 89 Mounted, blind-stamped on the mount Spring 1861, Charles Garnier, grand Prix de Rome in architecture, won the competition to build the new opera. Invested at the head of the construction site, he chose Delmaet & Durandelle, for documenting the work in progress since 1865. over one hundred and fifty photographs were made until unfortunately the Prussian attacked. Émile Durandelle and his wife Clémence Jacob-Delmaet eventually published a set of albums in 1876. These prints and the next lots are extremly rare pre-1870 prints given to the architects. |
| 32. |  | Louis-Emile Durandelle 1879 Bronzes Albumen print 14 3/4 x 9 5/8 Lee Gallery (S2101) Title and photographer's name on mount on recto. |
| 33. |  | 1866-1874 (ca) Bronzes [Le Nouvel Opera de Paris] Albumen print, mounted Private collection of Peter Spangenberg |