Lot 75
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[Andrieu, Jean (1816-c.1872)]
'Désastres de Paris, 1871'
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
[cover-title]. Oblong folio album, morocco backstrip, brown cloth covers, front cover lettered in gilt, the album containing 20 albumen-print photographs (27 x 20.5cm), mounted to rectos only of stiff-card leaves, manuscript captions in pencil to mounts, reading: 1) Hotel de Ville; 2) Hotel de Ville - Façade; 3) Les Tuileries […]; 4) Tuileries - Pavillion de Flore; 5) Interieur du Palais des Tuileries - Salon de la Paix; 6) Palais des Tuileries […] coté des Champs Elysées; 7) Le Palais Royal; 8) Le Ministère des Finances; 9) La Colonne Vendôme; 10) La Rue Royale et Egile de la Madeleine; 11) Palais du Conseil d'Etat; 12) Interieur du Palais du Conseil d'Etat; 13) Le Grenier d'Abondance; 14) Théâtre de la Porte St Martin; 15) Palais de la Légion d'Honneur; 16) La Caisse des Dépots et Consignations; 17) Ruines de la Rue de Lille; 18) L'Arsenal, 19) […] Légion d'Honneur - Conseil d'Etat - Tuileries; 20) Panorame de Paris. Binding slightly rubbed, a little spotting and soiling to mounts, pencil-markings to versos of a few mounts
Footnote
Although unsigned (in the negatives or elsewhere), these photographs are evidently the work of Jean Andrieu, who produced a large and important body of photographs of Paris in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune of 1870-1. The Musée Carnavelet in Paris holds examples of near-identical views of several subjects in this album, differing only in perspective, including, for instance, a photograph catalogued as 'L'hôtel des finances du Mont-Thabor, ancien ministère des finances (détruit)' (catalogue no. PH4393), taken from a slightly different angle from the image captioned ‘Le Ministère des Finances’ in the present collection. Andrieu also produced a named series titled ‘Désastres de la guerre’, the photographs in that case being presented on blue card mounts with printed captions. He was also known for his stereoviews, and in 1865 was appointed official photography to the French naval and colonial ministry.