89. Entrée du Palais Législatif (vues de Paris), stereoview by Florent Grau

Description: Title: 89. Entrée du Palais Législatif The series:This auction is for a stereoview from the “(vues de Paris)” series, which presents images of Paris as it then was in the late 1850s and early 1860s. There are roughly two hundred numbered views in the series, including some with the same style of mount and label but lacking the (vues de Paris) title. The artist:There is nothing printed on any of these by an artist claiming authorship of these works. A small number from this series represent imperial residences, and a small number of those are clearly from the same negatives as views published by Florent Grau. Grau used as a marque the initials “G. A. F.”, which were his initials in reverse order. I bring this up to suggest that some, perhaps all, of the works in this series are by Grau. Feel free to contact me with evidence for or against this attribution. Many of these have a rubber-stamp on the reverse for A. Hautecoeur, but he was a print and photograph dealer, not a photographer. The History:This view shows the entrance to the Palace of the legislature, le Palais Bourbon. This is the entrance on the south side of the building, on the Placer du Palais-Bourbon. The seated statue just right of center is La Loi, an allegorical representation of The Law by French sculptor Jean-Jacques Feuchère that was installed here by Napoléon III in 1854. No. 87 from this series provides a more familiar view of this building, the north façade on the Quai d’Orsay, with its colonnade facing the Place de la Concorde. This view has the rubber stamp of A. Hautecoeur on the reverse.

Price: 12.95 USD

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

End Time: 2025-01-15T02:11:02.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.95 USD