Louis-Emile Durandelle
Louis-Emile Durandelle | |
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Born | [1][2] Verdun | February 14, 1839
Died | March 12, 1917[3] | (aged 78)
Louis-Emile Durandelle (14 February 1839 – 12 March 1917) was a French architectural photographer. Durandelle is best known for his documentary photographs of the construction of Parisian buildings, including the Eiffel tower and the Paris Opera.
Career[]
From 1854 to 1862 he worked with and Dalmaet's wife as the company Delmaet & Durandelle.[4][5] The trio lived and worked from 30-32 Chaussé de Cligancourt in Paris.[5] After the death of Delmaet in 1862, Durandelle married Dalmaet's widow, who kept the name Clémence Jacob Dalmaet.[6][5][7]
By 1868 the company was operating from 4 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre.[8] Following Delmaet's death, Durandelle documented the construction of the Hotel-Dieu de Paris, Sacre Cour, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the theater at Monte Carlo and the 1882-1884 excavations under the Louvre Museum.[9] In 1871 Between 1870 and 1871 he photographed the Paris Commune, the insurrection against the government of Napoleon III.[4]
Durandelle published a portfolio in 1876, in collaboration with Charles Garnier, titled Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale, documenting the Paris Opéra's sculptural decoration.[4][10] He photographed the construction of the Eiffel Tower from 1887 until 1889.[4][11]
After the death of his wife in 1890, Dandurelle sold the photography business, along with its negatives, to his assistant and stopped taking photographs.[5][9]
Collections[]
- Art Institute of Chicago[12]
- Canadian Centre for Architecture[13]
- Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris[14][15]
- Getty Museum[4]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art[16]
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts[17]
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art[18]
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris[11]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York[19]
- National Gallery of Art, Washington[6]
- National Gallery of Canada[20]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[21]
Gallery[]
Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
Construction of the Paris Opera, 1864
Construction of the Paris Opera, May 1864
Great staircase of the Paris Opera, 1865
Circular vestibule of the Palais Garnier, 1864.
Paris Opera arch detail.
Workers on Girders of Auditorium, New Paris Opera.
References[]
- ^ "Naissances, Mariages, Décès (1839-1839) (2 E 558 (85)) - Archive..." Mnesys.
- ^ Leblanc, Charlotte. "Louis Émile Durandelle (1839-1917) : un photographe au service des architectes". Architectes et photographes au xixe siècle. Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art. ISBN 978-2-917902-62-2.
- ^ "GAIA 9 : moteur de recherche". consultation.archives.hauts-de-seine.net.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Louis-Émile Durandelle (French, 1839 - 1917) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Nilsen, Micheline (5 July 2017). Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-57598-0.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
- ^ Bernard, Bruce; Haworth-Booth, Mark (25 October 2002). One Hundred Photographs. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-4278-3.
- ^ Frizot, Michel; Albert, Pierre; Harding, Colin (1998). A New History of Photography. Könemann. ISBN 978-3-8290-1328-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hannavy, John (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-87327-1.
- ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle". www.clarkart.edu.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Musée d'Orsay: Louis-Emile Durandelle Construction of the Eiffel Tower, 1887". www.musee-orsay.fr.
- ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle". The Art Institute of Chicago.
- ^ "Bas-relief de la partie supérieure de la voûte - Vestibule octogone". www.cca.qc.ca.
- ^ "Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris : statues décoratives. Groupes et bas reliefs". Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine (in French).
- ^ France), Musée national des monuments français (Paris (1994). Photographier l'architecture, 1851-1920: collection du Musée des monuments français : Musée national des monuments français, 18 mars-20 juin 1994 [et] Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, Palais Longchamp, 1er juillet-1er septembre 1994 (in French). Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux. ISBN 978-2-7118-2962-0.
- ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle". www.metmuseum.org.
- ^ "Le Nouvel Opera de Paris- Statues Decoratives, Louis-Emile Durandelle; Editor: Durand et Cie ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org.
- ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle – Artists/Makers – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". art.nelson-atkins.org.
- ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
- ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle". www.gallery.ca.
- ^ "Durandelle, Louis-Émile · SFMOMA". SFMOMA.
- 1839 births
- 1917 deaths
- 19th-century French photographers
- Architectural photographers