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Materials:

Untrimmed salt print from a waxed paper negative

Size Notes:

image; sheet: 17 x 25.3 cm

Description:

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Markings:

Annotated ‘Modèle de l’atelier de Ch. N./c.f. un stéréoscope avec la même cheminée. Modèle pour “La Lecture”' by André Jammes in French and variously numbered in other hands, all in pencil on the verso.

Exhibited:

Charles Nègre 1820-1880, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 21 May - 20 June 1976, this lot

Literature:

J. Borcoman, ed., Charles Nègre 1820-1880, Ottawa: NGC, 1976, pl. 9, p. 65, titled Model in a Shift Reclining and dated c. 1849 F. Heilbrun, Charles Nègre 1820-1880: Das photographische Werk, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1988, fig. 30, p. 24, titled Model study for 'The Reading' and dated c. 1849

Provenance:

By descent to Joseph Nègre, great-nephew Collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris, late 1950s Sotheby's Paris, La Photographie III: Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, L'Oeuvre de Charles Nègre, 22 March 2002, lot 301 Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, PA, 2006 The Hyman Collection, London