Gustave Le Gray
Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély
Estimate: 100.000 - 150.000 GBP
Price realised: 327.600 GBP
Price realised: 327.600 GBP
Description
1857
A unique album of 66 albumen prints (44 scenes and 22 portraits) from wet-collodion negatives, mounted to album pages. Fifty-six with red ink facsimile signature stamps and 4 smaller prints with red ink credit stamps, all on the recto; 38 annotated, possibly by Regnaud, in blue ink on the mounts. The majority mounted one-per-page. Oblong folio, dark green leather with gilt embossed title, date, dedication and imperial arms on front cover.
Portraits: each approx. 32 x 24.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Scenes: varying sizes from 13.2 x 17.8 cm (5 1/4 x 7 in.) to 32.6 x 38.7 cm (12 7/8 x 15 1/4 in.) and one six-part panorama 30.6 x 210.5 cm (12 x 82 7/8 in.) overall
Album: 54 x 67 cm (21 ¼ x 26 3/8 in.)
This work is unique.
A unique album of 66 albumen prints (44 scenes and 22 portraits) from wet-collodion negatives, mounted to album pages. Fifty-six with red ink facsimile signature stamps and 4 smaller prints with red ink credit stamps, all on the recto; 38 annotated, possibly by Regnaud, in blue ink on the mounts. The majority mounted one-per-page. Oblong folio, dark green leather with gilt embossed title, date, dedication and imperial arms on front cover.
Portraits: each approx. 32 x 24.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Scenes: varying sizes from 13.2 x 17.8 cm (5 1/4 x 7 in.) to 32.6 x 38.7 cm (12 7/8 x 15 1/4 in.) and one six-part panorama 30.6 x 210.5 cm (12 x 82 7/8 in.) overall
Album: 54 x 67 cm (21 ¼ x 26 3/8 in.)
This work is unique.
Upper estimate price exceeded by more than 100%
This artwork by Gustave Le Gray achieved an unexpectedly high price at Phillips in London in May last year. In the Photographs auction, the work Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély sold for GBP 327,600.00 (€ 385,390.22) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 150,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Gustave Le Gray - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Bateaux quittant le port du Havre (navires de la flotte de Napoleon III), 1856-1857, which sold at auction in February 2016 for USD 965,000.00 (€ 887,927.86).
Oberer Schätzpreis um mehr als 100% übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Gustave Le Gray erzielte im Mai letzten Jahres bei Phillips in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Photographs wurde die Arbeit Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons au Général Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély für GBP 327.600,00 (€ 385.390,22) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 150.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Gustave Le Gray mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Bateaux quittant le port du Havre (navires de la flotte de Napoleon III), 1856-1857 beobachtet, die im Februar 2016 für USD 965.000,00 (€ 887.927,86) versteigert wurde.
Gustave Le Gray - Auction history
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