Lot 40: HENRI-VICTOR REGNAULT (1810-1878)

View of Château Saint Cloud, c.1850
waxed paper negative
14 1/8 x 18in. (36 x 45.8cm.)

From the artist;
to Louis Robert;
by descent to the present owner.

In her recent monograph on Regnault, Laurie Dahlberg notes: 'Regnault made most of his landscapes around farms and open country, but he also made some pictures in the imperial Parc de Saint Cloud...[here] Regnault could count on three things he most often sought in landscapes: the open view to the horizon (which allowed him to exploit atmospheric perspective), the plunging recession of space, and great wedges of sky.' (Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography, Princeton, 2005, pp.156-58)

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