France - 634 diapositives.
Estimation :
1200 / 2000
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
Images of Nancy (palace, ancient theatre, castle, square, etc.), Lyon (Les Chartreux, La Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière, cathedral,...), Grenoble and the Dauphiné Alps (glaciers, crevasses, lakes, summit of the Belledonne and other images of climbing alpinists). Images of the Cluny Museum (the room of shoes, of sculptures, of hardware, images of cabinets, closets, wardrobes, cutlery, furniture, sideboards, tapestry, armour, stained glass, orfevrerie,...). Images of a "pardon" in Brittany (a pardon is a typically Breton form of pilgrimage and one of the most traditional demonstrations of popular Catholicism in Brittany) and of procession in Boulogne showing the participating groups (the bishop of Arras, Cardinal Bourne, orphans, fishermen's daughters, English pilgrims, etc. Images of Cité de Carcassonne (gates, towers, plans, defense walls, church), Pierrefonds (castle), Compiegne, Mont Saint-Michel (abbey, tower, castle, etc.). Furthermore images of cathedrals, churches, monuments, details of sculptures, abbeys, ruins, art works in museums, castles, ancient temples in : Allevard, Azay-le-Rideau, Angers, Arles, Blois, Bayeux, Bourges, Carcasonne, Caen, Chartes, Coutances, Dijon, Le Faouët, Jumièges, Lourdes, Le Mans, Nimes, Orléans, Paris, Périgeux, Poitiers, Rouen, Reims, Rouget, Rennes, Strasbourg, Sens, Souillac, Toulouse, Tours, Vezelay, Valence,Versailles, etc. Images of several castles (interior and exterior) and their surroundings in France : Amboise, Blois, Compiègne, Chambord, Chenonceaux, Chantilly, Fontainebleau, Pierrefonds, Le Grand Trianon, Versailles. Cathedrals (interior and exterior as well as architectural details) : Amiens, Albi, Arles, Angoulême, Bayeux, Bourges, Beauvais, St-Bertrand-de-Comminge, Chartres, Coutances, Cahors, Carcassonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Châlons, Evreux, Laon, Le Mans, Noyon, St-Ours, Paris, Poitiers, Perigueux, Rodez, Reims, Strasbourg, Sens, Senlis, Saintes, Soissons, Tours, Toulouse, etc. Also a vast part (+/- 24 smaller cardboard boxes) of glass negatives of the cathedrals of Amiens, Chartres, Paris and Reims. Labels "E. Mazo", "Beernaert's".
