19th C. Architectural Views
19th C. Architectural Views
October 3, 2018
Louis-Antoine Froissart (French, 1815-1860), Lyon Flood, 1856
Félix Teynard (1817-1892) completed an extensive photographic survey of Egypt during the course of a voyage along the Nile in 1851-52. Auguste Salzmann (1824-1872), a landscape painter in a family of painters, was lured into photography perhaps as a result of his first trip to the Holy Land in 1850. In 1854, Salzmann won a commission from the Ministry of Public Instruction to photograph monuments left by crusading knights. A surgeon by training and an amateur photographer by avocation, Dr. Thomas Keith (1827-1895) made several studies of Greyfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh. Louis-Antoine Froissart (1815-1860) was the official photographer for the city of Lyon, photographing scenes and events of municipal interest. He documented also the Lyon Flood in May 1856. Louis-Emile Durandelle (1839-1917) is best known for his group of photographs of the construction of the Paris Opéra and its sculptural ornaments and decorations.
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Louis-Antoine Froissart (French, 1815-1860), Lyon Flood, 1856
Louis-Emile Durandelle (French, 1839-1917), Frieze and cornice of the stage tower, from "Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris,
Sculpture Ornamentale", 1876
Félix Teynard (French, 1817-1892), Southern Wall of the Exterior of the Sanctuary. Dendur, 1851-1852