HENRI LE SECQ (1818-82)

Rheims, Notre-Dame cathedral: west front, left portal, 1851-52

细节

HENRI LE SECQ (1818-82)
Rheims, Notre-Dame cathedral: west front, left portal, 1851-52
Two salt prints from waxed paper negatives, each approx. 10 x 13½ in. or the reverse, each signed h. Le Secq Rheims in the negative, mounted on thin card, numbered in pencil in a later hand on mounts. (2)

出版

Janis and Sartre, Henri Le Secq Photographe de 1850 à 1860, nos. 77 and 78

拍品专文

Henri Le Secq was a founder member of the Société Héliographique which was later to become the Société Franaise de la Photographie. He was one of five photographers to be appointed to the government funded Mission Héliographique formed under the auspices of the Commission des Monuments Historiques to document the country's architectural heritage from 1851. The photographs in this and the following lot were probably taken during the photographer's first expedition for the Mission which included visits to northeast France as well as the cathedrals of Strasbourg, Amiens, Rheims and Chartres.