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Soulier, Charles
French (1840-1875)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Paris Incendié
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: views of monuments and buildings of Paris destroyed during the uprising of the Paris Commune, 1871
TRANSLATED TITLE: Paris Conflagration

1871
49 albumen photographs
42.4 x 28.5 cm. (album)
Museum Collection
79:0018:0000

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Degas' Visual Environment", US, NY, Rochester October 26, 2002 - January 5, 2003.//

INSCRIPTION: embossed (cover and spine): Paris Incedié letterpress (each plate): Photographie par Ch. Soulier / Paris Incendié / Mai 1871 / Publié 141 Boulevard Sébastopol à Paris pencil inscription (interior): Purchase Chas. Tuttle / Oct. 1967

FRAME: covered with red leather and cloth

NOTES: An album of 49 albumen photographs, approximately 12.5 x 16.5 cm. each mounted on a plate block with title, date and name of the photographer printed underneath. There is also a printed strip of paper which identifies each view pasted in the corner of each page. These images document the destruction of the monuments and public buildings of Paris which occurred in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War. After France's defeat, an insurrection by a group identified as the "Commune of Paris" raged from March 18 until May 28, 1871. The images include views of the Port d'Autiel and of the area known as Neuilly as well as views from many perspectives of the destruction of the Tuileries Palace and of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall). Album is in fairly good condition, covered in red leather and cloth with title embossed in gold on the cover and on the spine. There is considerable foxing on the first page of the album; the front cover is detached. 42.4 x 28.5 cm. Catalogued 9/02 JRS

SUBJECT: architecture, ruins

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