id:			155367
accession number:	1990.116
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.116
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:08.828000

The New Paris Opera: Ornamental Scupture, c. 1865–72. Louis-Émile Durandelle (French, 1839–1917). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 28.1 x 38.1 cm (11 1/16 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1990.116

title:				Ornamental Scupture
title in original language:	
series:				The New Paris Opera
series in original language:	
creation date:			c. 1865–72
creation date earliest:		1860
creation date latest:		1877
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

---

culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	albumen print from wet collodion negative
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Louis-Émile Durandelle (French, 1839–1917)  - artist
Louis-Émile Durandelle French, 1839-1917

Born in Verdun, Louis-Émile Durandelle is known for his portrayal of important construction projects that helped Paris achieve its unique mix of ancient and modern architecture during the second half of the 19th century. In partnership with photographer Hyacinthe César Delmaet (1828-1862), or perhaps with his wife Clémence Jacob Delmaet, whom Durandelle married after Delmaet's death, he recorded the construction and details of some of the city's great new building projects -- including the Sacre Coeur, the new Hôtel de Ville, the archaeological excavations at the Louvre, and the Eiffel Tower -- in a direct, almost modernist style. Especially well known is his photographic documentation of the construction of Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra, which occupied four of the eight volumes of Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris (1875-81).
	Durandelle stopped photographing in 1890. While his treatment of building and industry can be stark and direct, his unadorned, functional work is attractive to the modern eye. T.W.F.
* Ducher et Cie., Editeurs  - publisher

---

measurements: Image: 28.1 x 38.1 cm (11 1/16 x 15 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	none
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

---

PROVENANCE

	(Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA)
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 27, 1991
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Garnier, Charles, and Louis-Émile Durandelle. Le nouvel Opéra de Paris. 1875.
	page number: 	pl. 10
	url:		

	"1990 Photography Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 2 (1991): 46-59.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 47
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161315

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 142
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.116/1990.116_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.116/1990.116_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.116/1990.116_full.tif