LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Salt print from a waxed paper negative, mounted to the original album leaf
Size Notes:
image/sheet; mount: 35 x 49 cm
Description:
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Markings:
Numbered '12' in the negative; 'LE DIEN ET GUSTAVE LE GRAY' credit stamp on the recto; titled 'Pompeï Maison de Méléagre' in French and numbered '14' in unidentified hands in pencil on the mount
Provenance:
Originally in an album of early Italian views compiled by W.H. Guebhard, a student of Le Gray Private Collection, France Corbeil-Essones Enchère, Corbeil-Essones, Exceptionnel ensemble de 58 photographies sur papier salé par Gustave Le Gray et Eugène Le Dien, sur l'Italie: Pompeï, Salerne, Naples, Rome, Paestum, Amalfi, 23 February, 2013, lot 190 The Hyman Collection, London