Photo album of the family Charles Auguste Fraikin.

325 albumen prints, postcards, drawings and others, attached with the corners (detachable), ms. captions on the mounts and on verso photos.

Obl. album ad hoc.

Album concerning the Belgian neoclassical sculptor Charles Auguste Fraikin (1817-1893), his family, entourage, museum in Herentals, works, etc. Including 2 copies of "Musée Fraikin de Herenthals offert par l'artiste à sa ville natale l'an 1891. Catalogue de la galerie", 2 ff. with a ms. family tree, one starting from Grégoire Joseph Fraikin (1734-1783) to Georges Fraikin (1895-1928), another showing links to the families Devis, Van Gelder-Parijs, Peppe, Evenepoel, etc. Charles Auguste Fraikin married Sophie Devis (1838-1919). She was the aunt of Henri Evenepoel and the half sister of Henri's mother. Charles Auguste Fraikin became very wealthy as the sculptor of both the patron saints and the allegories on the facades of the Brussels town hall, as well as of the famous statue of the Dukes of Egmont and Hoorne in the Square du Petit Sablon. In the album we find portraits of family members before and after the birth of Charles Auguste, a photo of Sebastopol in 1886, photos of Maurice, the elder brother of Henri Evenepoel and of Edmond, their father, also of Kikine, the wife of Maurice. To mention the photos of the paintings made by Henri Evenpoel such as "Charles (Chapeau de paille), "Ch. Milcendeau", "Simon Bussy", "Fernand Lotz", "Paul Baignières", etc. The life of the children (Charles, Marguerite, Paul and Marie) and grandchildren (Berthe, Lucie, Max and Georges) of Charles Auguste and Sophie. Paul Fraikin (1863-1948) was an amateur photographer and lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. Also photos of sculptures in the now disappeared Museum of Herentals. For decades, the public could admire the work of Fraikin in the medieval Cloth Hall of Herentals. During the 1980s, however, the Fraikin Museum was dismantled, despite the conditions of the donation.