LOT DETAILS

Materials:

circular albumen print from a paper negative

Measurements:

3.94 in. (10.00 cm.) (height) by 3.94 in. (10.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

initialed in the negative, numerical notations ‘No 37’ and ‘B-16’ in pencil and the ‘André Jammes’ collection stamp and ‘a j’ collection label on the reverse

Literature:

James Borcomon, Charles Nègre 1820-1880 (National Gallery of Canada, 1976), cover and pl. 29 (this print)

Provenance:

Collection of the photographer. By descent to his son, Charles Nègre. Collection of André Jammes, Paris, 1950s. Sotheby’s Paris, La Photographie III, Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes: l’Oeuvre de Charles Nègre, 22 March 2002, Sale 2003, Lot 317