3097 - 3283 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Sm., unobtrusive crease.
= Photograph commisioned by the periodical Hollands Diep on occasion of the Boekenweek 2009, which had the animal as its main theme. With accompanying computer printed letter by Brenda van der Haak (on leaf w. printed letterhead of Erwin Olaf: "Beste Remco [Campert], Bij deze het portret en de groetpsfoto gemaakt voor Hollands Diep. Bedankt voor uw medewerking (...)".
- Slightly frayed; some vague ofsetting from former passepartout. = A remarkable portrait.
- Damaged edges; nevertheless an interesting photograph, skillfuly touched by the photographer.
AND 1 similar photograph by the same, a portrait of a woman.
= Adolf Elnain was befriended with artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Alexej Jawlensky.
AND 15 other miscell. portraits, mostly group portraits, ±1900-1930, various sizes.
- Frame w. repaired cracks. = Identified in 20th cent. handwriting on verso frame.
= With a SIGNED dedication in pen and ink by Georges de Larabrie (1848-1953) to Louise Evrard-Flignot, wife of Leonce Evrard. De Larabrie settled eventually in Brussels and designed i.a. houses in Brussels, the mansion Mont Rival in Rochefort. He is largely forgotten, except for his design of the funeral monument of the couple Evrard and Flignot on the cemetery of Laeken, Brussels. Not so much the design stands out but the fact that on Midsummer's day the light shines into the tomb and makes a heart on the wall.
= On verso part of a different partly handcoloured portrait with annotations: "M.L.W. 1 1/4 hour M.L.W. 3/4 of an h".
AND a small painted miniature portrait, within leather covered case.
- Vague crease in lower left corner.
Idem. (Louis Th. Lehmann). Gelatin silver print, 25,4x20,4 cm.
- Sm. crease in lower left corner.
= Published in Pose der natuurlijkheid. Schrijvers (1981). Van Sinderen p.248: "'Niets mooier dan het zorgvuldig afgebakende grijs, gemarkeerd door een basis van dominerend zwart en waar nodig geaccentueerd door het hoge wit', verwoordde Philip Mechanicus ooit zijn voorliefde voor de zwartwitfotografie. (...) Als fotograaf heeft Mechanicus zich altijd voornamelijk toegelegd op het portret - 'foto's van een neus met omgeving'. Zijn benadering is sober: hoofd, schouders en een deel van het bovenlichaam scherp afgebeeld tegen een egale studioachtergrond".
Idem. (Bert Voeten). Gelatin silver print, 25,5x16 cm.
- Slightly creased in top margin and right blank margin.
= As used in Een cursus fotografie. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE.
AND 1 other gelatin silver print by A. AKERMAN, "Bert S. leest uit eigen werk op 31-1 j.l. in de Wetering Galerie bij de presentatie v.h. boek dat hij maakte met Dieter Haack (...)" (17,6x24 cm., with mounted photographer's label on verso and with description of the scene in ballpoint signed "Betty v. G." on verso).
= With a SIGNED dedication by Wauters in pen and ink.
AND 5 other cartes-de-visite of the artists Horace Vernet (2x, Bingham and Disderi), A.E. Descamp, H.J. Burgers and the last king of Hannover, Georg V (by Nadar), all 1860. - ADDED ±40 other cartes-de-visite and ±20 cabinet size portraits, ±1860-1920, mostly by Belgian photographers (a few signed, i.a. by the sopranoes Berthe Briffaux and Octavie Belloy).
= In these rare physionotraces an engraved profile portrait was made with the use of the light of a lamp, which cast the profile of a sitter onto a glass plate, from where it was copied by a mechanical engraving apparatus onto a copper plate. Because of their realism, physionotraces are seen as precursors of photographs. The etching of the lady has an old annotation in pencil identifying(?) her as "Rochebrune". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
- Lower margin cut short, w. sl. loss of photographer's address. = Rare.
- Some sl. foxing/ soiling; one print sl. scratched; incl. 1 duplicate but of diff. size.
= One of the earliest electrical locomotives in France and Switzerland, built by the Alioth company. It was used by the PLM, on the line between Cannes and Grasse. And another type with engines of the Alioth company on the small line of Chamonix between Saint Gervais and Vallorcine on the Swiss and French border. Showing views along the line, but also an interior view of the cockpit and views of the factory. Photographs probably taken for promotional or commemorative purposes.