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leur contexte ; d’autres ont été extraites d’ensembles plus larges pour permettre
une meilleure mise en valeur. Les descriptions sont en grande partie basées sur
les légendes manuscrites portées sur les dias ainsi que sur les étiquettes apposées
sur les classeurs.
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References
: Veraverbeke, E. - Frédéric de Smet (1876-1948) en de Gentse
kunstscène: bijdrage tot het onderzoek van de Gentse kunstmiddens in de
late 19de-eerst helft 20ste eeuw (thesis).
Joseph, S.F., Schwilden, T., Claes M.-C. - Directory of photographers in
Belgium 1839-1905. Antwerp, Museum voor Fotografie, 1997, pp. 138.
The collection is amply illustrated online
www.romanticagony.com***
232 [Africa]
-
60 diapositives
.
€ 400/800
Mostly
portraits
of
indigenous people
. School children in
Alladah
(Benin), views of
Porto Novo
and Coutonou (Benin): street and baobab,
Okahandja
(Namibia), Ngambo tribunal (Zanzibar),
views of Bagamoyo and Dar-el-Salaam (Tanzania), etc.
South Africa
: Usambara,
Johannesburg
and Kwai. Half of the diapositives without location indication (possibly Congo or surroundings?)
showing peasants, cattle, villages, ivory trade, people posing near a crocodile, a chief and his
family, an elephant, a hammock to travel in, etc.
We join: 82 images
of illustrations and text fragments from a handbook and also original
photographs (?) of Free Town and Bathurst in
Sierra Leone
. Images in colors.
233 [America]
-
110 diapositives
.
€ 500/800
Images of several cities and their infrastructure, city surroundings, nature and people in South-,
Central-, and North America:
Quebec
(harbour, river), Ottawa (the palace), the St Lawrence River,
the Mississipi River, Minneapolis, a bridge in St Louis, Philadelphia, Fairmont, New Hampshire,
the
White Mountains
in New Hampshire (Mount Webster, Mount Lafayette, Mount Kearsage),
the Hudson River,
Central Parc
(New York), Broadway, Delaware, Missouri, New Mexico. South
America: laundry women in Vina del Mar (Chili), women of Chiloe Island, a spinner (Chili), views
of Santiago de Chili, Petropolis (Brasil), Rio de Janeiro, etc.
Joined:
Coloured images of the
Niagara Falls and surroundings (Prospect Point, America Falls, Niagra township,...).
234 [Art]
-
30 boxes of diapositives
.
€ 300/600
17 boxes of
paintings
(+/- 1063 slides) alphabetically arranged (not all letters present, no strict
classification): A (Angelico, Altichieri, Albani, Avanzo), B (Botticelli, Basaïti, Bartholemeo, etc.),
C (Campin, Carpaccio, Courbet, Cabanel, Calderon, Chardin, Cranach, Carravagio, etc.), D (Del
Sarto, Daret, Durer, Corneille De Vos, Domenico, Delacroix, L. David), G (Gaddi, Ghirlandaio,
Gozzoli, Garofalo, Gainsborough, Greuze, Géricault, Giorgione), H (Holbein, Hals), I (Ingres),
J (Jordaens, Jouvanet, Joanes), L (Fra Philippo Lippi, Landseer, Linghton, Lebrun, Lorenzetti,
Lawrence, etc.), M (Muriello, Mantegna, Morales, Manaccio, Meissonnier, Michelangelo, Memling,
Metsys, Medovic, Mostaert, Masolino, Memmi, Mathelot, Meert, Morovi, Mierin, etc.), P (Pesello,