Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824-1872) Jerusalem, Champ du Sang

Description:

Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824-1872)

Jerusalem, Champ du Sang, 1854, printed by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Évrard's company, Imprimerie Photographique. Titled and identified on the mount. Salted paper print from a paper negative mounted to board, image/sheet size 9 1/4 x 13 in. (23.5 x 33.0 cm),matted, unframed.
Condition: Scattered fox marks on the mount.

Provenance: Property from the collection of Harvey Shipley Miller, proceeds to benefit the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

N.B. Faith and Photography: Auguste Salzmann in the Holy Land, an exhibition of the artist's Jerusalem photographs, is currently on view at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

Mount measures 16 7/8 x 23 3/8 in. (43.0 x 59.5 cm).


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