Saint-Sauveur. Sentier du chaos conduisant à Gavarnie (Saint-Sauveur. The Path to Chaos Leading to Gavarnie), 1853

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series Title

Voyage dans les Pyrénées (Travel through the Pyrenees)

Medium

salted paper print

Dimensions

image: 24.6 × 36.9 cm (9 11/16 × 14 1/2 in.)

sheet: 42.4 × 54.3 cm (16 11/16 × 21 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

2015.35.1

Artists / Makers

Joseph Vigier (artist) French, 1821 - 1894

Image Use

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Inscription

by artist, upper center on mount in black ink: Saint- Sauveur.; upper right in graphite: 21; lower center on mount in black ink: Sentier du chaos conduisant à Gavarnie.; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 22; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 300779.22; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: TR:311-2014

Provenance

Private collection, France; Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., 2007; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.

Exhibition History

2015: Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016