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an old photo of a city on the wateran old photo of a building with a statue in front of it
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243 - GABRIEL REY, 1856
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Estimate €1,000 - €1,200
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GABRIEL REY, 1856 3 albumen prints - Entrance to the Port of Marseille. Calotype, albumen print. 25 x 37 cm Bibliography: *La Photographie en Provence 1839–1895*, Jeanne Laffitte, 1995. - Palais de la Bourse, with a letter from the architect Coste to the departmental architect Martin Pascal Coste, the city’s chief architect, was commissioned by Fabricius Paranque, a soap manufacturer and President of the Chamber, to draw up the plans. The project required the compulsory purchase of 65 buildings, the demolition of which began in 1852. The inauguration took place in September 1860, in the presence of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Work on the finishing touches continued for a further twenty years. Prints: 27.5 x 38 cm. Mount: 36 x 46 cm - View of the Arc de Triomphe, c. 1880 Signed on the negative, and inscribed in ink on the backing. Prints: 17 x 21 cm, Mount: 33.5 x 44.5 cm
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About the sale Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part II
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Auction time 10/23/2026 at 2:00 PM
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