Stage Frieze and Cornice
c. 1870
Medium
Albumen print, from "Le nouvel Opéra de Paris, Sculpture ornementale" (1875)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 37.9 × 28.2 cm (14 15/16 × 11 1/8 in.); Mount: 63 × 45.2 cm (24 13/16 × 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
215281
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
One of the most accomplished architectural photographers in 19th-century France, Louis-Emile Durandelle is best known for his 1861–75 photographs of the construction of the Paris Opéra, an opulent structure that would come to symbolize the ambitions of Second Empire Paris. 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 of what Durandelle photographed was not visible to the u...