191. Cascade de Saint-Cloud, stereoview by Florent Grau

Description: Title: 191. Cascade de Saint-Cloud 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 like this one, 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 Grande-Cascade, an elaborate water feature at the Palace of Saint-Cloud, was built by Antoine Le Pautre in 1664-1665. At the same time a large part of the population of Paris had to fetch their household water from public fountains, many supplied with water pumped out of the Seine. But it must have been lovely sight, for the fortunate few who got to see it, when great volumes of water spewed out of pipes and cascaded over this magnificent masonry confection, and then drained away into who knows where.This view has the rubber stamp of A. Hautecoeur on the reverse.

Price: 12.95 USD

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

End Time: 2025-01-16T22:46:41.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.95 USD