Bagnères-de-Luchon at the Foot of the Castel-Vielh Tower, 1853

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 26.1 × 36.2 cm (10 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)

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

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2018.168.3

Artists / Makers

Joseph Vigier (artist) French, 1821 - 1894

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand, center above image in black ink: Bagneres de Luchon; by unknown hand, center below image in black ink: Bagneres de Luchon du pied de la tour de Castevieilh. A gauche la foret de la Bagnartigue; au dessus de Luchon la montagne de Carevil --; by unknown hand, lower right corner in graphite: 4; by unknown hand, upper right corner in graphite, underlined: 4
on verso, by unknown hand, lower left corner in graphite: 300779.4

Provenance

(Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 2007; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

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.