Currently not on view
Pont de l'Alma, Paris,
1860–70
Hippolyte-Auguste Collard, French, 1812–1893
1997-18
Information
Title
Pont de l'Alma, Paris
Dates
1860–70
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
sheet: 25.9 x 42.2 cm (10 3/16 x 16 5/8 in.)
mount: 47.9 x 58.7 cm (18 7/8 x 23 1/8 in.)
mat: 50.8 x 61 cm. (20 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Florence Gould Foundation
Object Number
1997-18
Place Depicted
Europe, France, Paris, Pont de l'Alma
Inscription
Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower right: Dj 1036
Marks/Labels/Seals
Blindstamp on mount, lower center: ATELIER CENTRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE / [?] * [?] / COLLARD Editeur / PARIS / Bould de Strasbourg, 53
Culture
Techniques
Subject
- Bernard Marbot, "After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography (1848-1900) from the Bibliothèque Nationale" (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980)., not illustrated
- André Rouillé, La Photographie en France: Textes & Controverses, une Anthologie 1816-1871 (Paris: Macula, 1989)., pp. 282–283
- Elizabeth Anne McCauley, Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848-1871 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)., pp. 125–232
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., p. 200