Louis-Émile Durandelle
Frise et corniche de la scène

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Artist Louis-Émile Durandelle(French, 1839–1917)French, 1839–1917

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

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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