‎VERNET Horace - GOUPIL & Cie. ( publisher ) :‎
‎Oeuvres choisies de Horace Vernet. Album ( Photographique ) Horace Vernet.‎

‎" Paris, Goupil & Cie., s.d. (1870), small photograph album (142 x 114 mm), printed title + 15 album leaves in thick board, with mounted on each side (back to back) an original photograph (size 90 x 50 mm) + (1) nn pp (printed list of the photographs). Album bound in publisher's red imitiation leather, with gilt title on frontcover, within an extensive blindtooled frame, all edges gilt, binding with some wear at extremeties (especially corners), silky endpapers oxydized, board leaves with some marginal stains, still a good copy. Photo album with 30 original photographs ; 1 portrait of the artist and 29 pictures of his paintings. The Goupil company , specialised in art reproduction, started publishing photo albums on art subjects from 1850 onwards. These albums contained photographs in the '' carte de visite '' format ( ca. 90 x 50 cm) . The photographs were intended to be mounted by the buyers in their own albums, together with their private photographs and portraits. In 1870 Goupil published a series of 5 albums each devoted to a single painter; Raphael, Delaroche, Gerome, Scheffer and Vernet. Complete albums are rare. Since 1991 there exists a museum in Bordeaux which exhibits and documents the activities of this 19th-century French art publisher."‎

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