Live auction - Lot 457

[Africa - Egypt]

BÉCHARD, Henri

Three albumen prints.


Hammer price: € 480

€ 500 / 600

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All 38,7 x 27,3 cm, titled and signed by the photographer on lower part of the photo (photos of mosque and tombs sl. spotted).

Under passe-partout, framed (one without glass).

1. Mosquée de Méchémet Ali, Caire. - 2. Tombeaux des Califes, Vue générale, Caire. - 3. Pylone du Temple d'Edfou. Three photos by the French photographer with a studio in the garden of Ezbekia in Cairo, H. Béchard (fl. 1869-late 1880s). "His work is distinguished by the superb quality of his prints and the generally spectacular presentation of even the most common sites ... His cityscapes and urban scenes were mostly taken from unusual angles in an attempt to cope with narrow and confined spaces" (Perez).
Ref. Nissan Perez, Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), p. 132.

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Lot 457

Three albumen prints.

BÉCHARD, Henri

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