Assembly of Troops for Napoleon III, Place Bellecour de Lyon
1860
Artist, French, 1810 - 1875
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23 × 30.2 cm (9 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
mount: 36.8 × 47.8 cm (14 1/2 × 18 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2019.20.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Serge Kakou, Paris); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 2013; NGA purchase, 2018.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2019
The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, below image center in black inl: Defile des troupes devant S.M. L'Empereur, Place Bellecour a Lyon.; on verso, by unknown hand in upper left corner in graphite: Ambroise Richebourg / Voyage de Napoleon III a Lyon / le 25 Aout 1860; left edge: 5; lower left: 20986.