Paris – Louvre et la Seine, Le. Vue prise du Pont-neuf. In front lighters. Accessory figures on both banks as on the Pont des Arts. Glazed coloured lithograph by Aubrun after Philippe Benoist (Genève 1813 – about 1905). (1857-60.) 26.5 x 36 cm.
Paris dans sa Splendeur LIX – (“documenting important series of lithographs”). – Benoist was
“ pupil of Louis Jacques Daguerre who , coming from photography ,
imparted to him the importance of details and under whose influence he specialized himself on precise, perspectively accurate architecural views; mainly working in Vincennes” (AKL IX, 132). – On light cardboard.
Offer no. 14,533 / EUR 270. / export price EUR 257. (c. US$ 360.) + shipping
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