Lot 31: FERREZ, MARC (1843-1923) Remarkable album containing 68 original photographs, most depicting

Name: FERREZ, MARC (1843-1923) Remarkable album containing 68 original photographs, most depicting
Brand: Swann Auction Galleries
SKU: dfvtq8ykeo

Est: $25,000 USD - $35,000 USDSold:

Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USOctober 21, 2008

Item Overview

Description

FERREZ, MARC (1843-1923)
Remarkable album containing 68 original photographs, most depicting Brazilian railroad constructions, market and farming scenes, rural landscapes, as well as views of Rio de Janeiro and Sugar Loaf, Petropolis, Sao Paolo and Mina Gerais. With a rare print of slaves as well as a 2-part panorama of Santa Cruz, and a group portait of Africans posing before a hut. Albumen prints, 60 measure approximately 6 1/4x8 3/4 inches (15.8x22.2 cm.), one with Ferrez's credit in the negative. Small folio, leather; all edges gilt. Late 1880s-early 1890s

Artist or Maker

Marc (1843) Ferrez

Condition Report

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Notes

Marc Ferrez was born in Rio de Janeiro to a family of French artists. He was formally educated in Paris and returned to Brazil to open a photographic studio. Ferrez''s accomplished prints of rural landscapes, architectural scenes of plantations and slaves, and panoramas chronicle the consolidation of Brazil as a nation. Although he photographed the entirety of his country it is the pictures of railway scenes that are particularly prized.

He was made "Photographo de Marinha Imperial" and, in the late 19th century, he exhibited his fine art photographs throughout Europe and the United States. Today, his photographs are in the collections of The Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) as well as cultural institutions in Europe and Brazil.

Gilberto Ferrez: O Rio Antigo do Fotografo Marc Ferrez, Paisagens e tipos humanos do Rio de Janeiro 1865-1918, 86, 87, 106, 117, and 212.

Weston Naef and Gilberto Ferrez: Pioneer Photographers of Brazil, 1840-1920, 129.

Auction Details

IMPORTANT 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS

Swann Auction Galleries

October 21, 2008, 01:30 PM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US

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