Louis-Émile Durandelle
Frise et corniche de la scène

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Frise et corniche de la scène
  • Frieze and Cornice of the Stage Tower
  • from the publication Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris, Sculpture Ornementale
Date1876
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 14 11/16 × 11 in. (37.3 × 28 cm)
Sheet: 14 11/16 × 11 in. (37.3 × 28 cm)
Mount: 24 11/16 × 17 5/8 in. (62.7 × 44.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Krista and Michael Dumas
Object number2017.126
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Among the most lavish of Second Empire monuments, Charles
Garnier’s elaborately decorated Neo-Baroque Paris Opéra devoted as much space
and luxe to grand ceremonial arcades, foyers, and staircases as to the theater hall.
Louis-Émile Durandelle documented the construction and decoration of the Opéra
for a decade. Here, stone carvers 200 feet above the street chip away at
enormous garlands of fruit that form a decorative frieze on the stage tower.




Provenance[Serge Kakou, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, recto, top center above image: 40
Inscribed in negative, recto, top right corner in image: No 40
Inscribed in negative, recto, bottom left in image: No 160 [white] // No 40 [black]
Printed in black, recto, center below image: LE NOUVEL OPÉRA DE PARIS // SCULPTURE ORNEMENTALE // DUCHER et Cie, Editeurs // Durandelle, Photographe.

Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, bottom left: 23919
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, bottom right: DD
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, top center: 9

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Frise et corniche de la scène.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.40
Frise de l'entablement. – Façade principale.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.41
Chapiteau des colonnes et des pilastres de la salle.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.30
Clef de la grande fenêtre. – Façade posté- rieure de la scène.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.11
Colonnes de la salle. – Base et fût.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.20
Clef et tympan de la base du vestibule du contrôle.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.12
Arc doubleau de la scéne
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1876
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2019.483.35
Plomberie et taille de pierre
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1876
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2019.483.29
Colonnes des escaliers secondaires. –Fût et chapiteau.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.21
Chéneau de la grande coupole de la salle.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.32
Bas-relief de la partie supérieure de la voûte. – Vestibule octogone.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.16
Chéneau de la lanterne de la salle.
Louis-Émile Durandelle
1866–1875, printed 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2015.267.34