116. Cascade au Bois de Boulogne (vues de Paris), stereoview by Florent Grau

Description: Title: 116. Cascade au Bois de Boulogne The series:This auction is for a stereoview from the “(vues de Paris)” series, which presents images of Paris as it then was in the late 1850s and early 1860s. There are roughly two hundred numbered views in the series, including some with the same style of mount and label but lacking the (vues de Paris) title. The artist:There is nothing printed on any of these by an artist claiming authorship of these works. A small number from this series represent imperial residences, and a small number of those are clearly from the same negatives as views published by Florent Grau. Grau used as a marque the initials “G. A. F.”, which were his initials in reverse order. I bring this up to suggest that some, perhaps all, of the works in this series are by Grau. Feel free to contact me with evidence for or against this attribution. Many of these have a rubber-stamp on the reverse for A. Hautecoeur, but he was a print and photograph dealer, not a photographer. The History:The Bois de Boulogne was given to the city by Napoleon III in 1852. For the remainder of the decade work was under way to turn it into a public park. The cascade was actually designed by Baron Haussmann himself, when the original architects produced an unworkable plan for the water features. Apparently, it didn’t flow uphill then, either. The result was an upper lake and a lower lake separated by a dam over which the water flowed to create the cascade pictured here.

Price: 9.95 USD

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

End Time: 2025-01-15T02:36:07.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.95 USD