Jump to image

Fierlants, Edouard
Belgian (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Hospital St. Jean-Bruges

ca. 1860-62
albumen print, varnished with gelatin
27.0 x 36.3 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 17484
70:0049:0021

NON-GEH NUMBER: 184

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Buerger, Janet E. --The Era of the French Calotype.-- Rochester, NY: IMP/GEH, 1982. fig. 184.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 87.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 137.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Era of the French Calotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 17 -November 28, 1982.//
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"Beginnings of Art in Photography: Selections from the Museum's Nineteenth", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, December 22 - October 7, 1990.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(signature in red ink, lower left) "E. Fierlants" (handwritten in pencil) (above image) "Bruges" (below image) "Hospital St. Jean" (blindstamp, below image) "Art et Archeologie", "Didron Editeur a Paris", "Rue St. Dominique, 23" (handwritten in pencil, lower right corner) "8f"

NOTES: Catalogued by R. Sobieszek/KC, 4/85. Cataloged by J. Buerger. Updated 10/90, FE.

SUBJECT: architecture, hospital / Hospital St. Jean

Jump to text

Reposition image