Masks from the Control Room (Masques du vestibule de contrôle)
c. 1870
Medium
Albumen print, from "Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris, Sculpture Ornementale" (1875)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 27.5 × 38 cm (10 7/8 × 15 in.); Mount: 45 × 62.9 cm (17 3/4 × 24 13/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
215283
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
One of the most accomplished architectural photographers in 19th-century France, Louis-Émile Durandelle is best known for his comprehensive documentation of construction of the new Paris Opéra in 1861–75. The Opéra was an opulent structure that would come to symbolize the ambitions of Second Empire Paris. Between 1865 and 1872 Durandelle produced some 200 images of the building, and published 115, including this one, in the massive, eight-volume architectural work Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris. Much ...