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117 - THEODULE DEVERIA (1831–1871)
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Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
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THEODULE DEVERIA (1831–1871) Views of Egypt, 1859 A collection of 28 albumen prints from paper negatives, mounted on their original cardboard mounts. Captions in graphite on the mounts. Three prints with the title inscribed on the negative, one of which is signed and dated 1859. Image dimensions approx.: 11.3 x 7.6 cm to 27.7 x 20 cm; mounts: 30 x 40 cm Bichari Arabs (three different poses), a Black man from Aswan, Black men from Aswan, Hamda of As- wan, date palm grove (Abydos) (print signed and dated on the negative), Abydos, the fat ox , Aswan (2 different views), Bedrechin (Overturned Colossus), view of the Nile taken from Boulaq (2 different views), Denderah interior view, view of the Nile with the Pyramids of Giza, ruins of Karnak, Karnak bas-relief from the 19th Dynasty, Karnak door to a chamber from the 18th Dynasty, Luxor view taken from the south, How Lebas restored the Palace of Luxor, another part of the Château de France in Luxor, the great colossi of Medinet Abu, view of the Nile taken from inside the Temple of Ombos, the small temple at Philae, Villa Mariette at Saqqara (captioned ‘Memphis, house of the desert’ in negative), a bas-relief at Saqqara, the Ramasseum at Thebes, Medinet el-Bahari (Thebes). Théodule Devéria was the son of the painter and lithographer Achille Devéria and the nephew of the painter Eugène Devéria. A photographer from 1854 and an Egyptologist by vocation, he joined the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Louvre as a curator in 1855. In 1858–1859, he accompanied Auguste Mariette to Egypt and photographed the excavations at the Serapeum in Memphis and the Temple of Amun. He returned to Egypt in 1862 to work with Mariette and in 1865 with Henri Pereire, M. Surell and Arthur Rhoné. During this leisure trip, he used collodion glass negatives and took a greater interest in portraits and landscapes. Bibliography: *Focus East*, 1988; *Jammes Auction Catalogue*, 2008, lot 128, Sylvie Aubenas Jacques Lacarrière, *Voyage en Orient*, Paris 2001, pp. 29 and 73; Sylvie Aubenas, *P.L. Roubert Pioneers of Photography, BNF Gallimard, 2010, p. 274. Collections: BNF, Orsay, SFP, Getty
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About the sale The Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part I
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Auction time 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
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