DURANDELLE Paris Opera House big albumen 1880

DURANDELLE Paris Opera House big albumen 1880
LUIE-EMILE DURANDELLE 18/135. Le Nouvel Opera De Paris, Sculpture Ornementale, Ca.1875-1880, 11x14.75" Albumen print ASG# LED/1003 on 17.6x24.7" album page with printed title and credit

Louis-Emile Durandelle (1839-1917) was one half of a photographic team with Hyacinthe CAsar Delmaet from 1854 until 1862. After their partnership dissolved, Durandelle continued to photograph, specializing in photographs of architecture, particularly public buildings, in France throughout the 1860s. He photographed the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel and the construction of the Theatre de Monte Carlo. In 1870 and 1871 he photographed the Paris Commune, the insurrection against Napoleon III's government. In 1876 Durandelle published a portfolio, Le Nouvel Opera de Paris: Sculpture ornementale, a ten-year documentation of the sculptural decoration in the Paris Opera. From 1887 until 1889, he documented the erection of the Eiffel Tower. Credit Getty Museum
Condition: Excellent. Minor wear, worn edges on mount