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TITLE:
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Flore
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WORK DATE:
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1859
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CATEGORY:
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Photographs
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MATERIALS:
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Albumen print from wet plate negative, unmounted
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SIZE:
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h: 13.1 x w: 9.6 in / h: 33.3 x w: 24.4 cm
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REGION:
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French
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PRICE*:
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Contact Gallery for Price
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DESCRIPTION:
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Apparently, Negre flopped the negative when printing it. The statue is "Flore" made by sculptor Charles-Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720). About 1858, the nymphs of Nicolas Coustou and Coysevox came from Cour Marly and were installed in the new garden in the Tuileries along the fascade of the Royal Palace. The group was devoted to the theme of hunting. The statues from this group are currently in the Louvre. This statue has now lost it string of flowers shown in the photograph. See the Musée du Louvre, Sculptures française II. Renaissance et Temps modernes, Paris, éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998, deux volumes : vol.1, p.171. Nègre had originally proposed a project to publish a pictorial history of art to the French Emperor in 1858. The history was to be illustrated using Nègre's proprietary heliogravure printing process that he had just developed. That proposal was not accepted, nor was another for a publication on Paris and its history, which he suggested to the Prefect of Paris in August that year. To encourage him though, the head of the Beaux Arts department, Monsieur de Mercey, commissioned him to do a series of prints of the statues and views in the Tuileries gardens. Nègre began photographing in June 1859, producing 30 photographs, and sending the prints for approval by the Beaux Arts directors, but unfortunately his sponsor, Monsieur de Mercey fell ill and died in 1860, and his successor did not continue the project. This photograph is from that series. Francoise Heilbrun of the Musee d'Orsay states that 15 prints remained with Nègre's family and the majority were acquired by André and Marie-Thérèse Jammes and sold at their 2002 Paris auction of Nègre material, although this particular print came directly from the Nègre family and was not in the auction. No other print, or the glass plate negative, has been located in any other institutional or private collection. Provenance: Nègre family; Alain Paviot. Shipping and insurance costs will be added to the price and must be paid for by the buyer. Pennsylvania and New York buyers must pay appropriate sales tax. International clients are responsible for their VAT and other custom's oriented charges.
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