Disderi, Genevieve-Elisabeth
French (ca. 1817-1878)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Interior of St. Mathieu
BOOK TITLE: "Brest et ses environs", ca. 1860, pl. 6

ca. 1856
albumen print
26.8 x 20.0 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 13203
80:0256:0018

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 175-202

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 135.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"French Primitive Photography", US, PA, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 17 - December 28, 1969. (Traveled).//
"This Edifice is Colossal: 19th Century Architectural Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, November 8, 1986 - January 4, 1987. (Traveled).//
"Insight: Women's Photographs from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 24 - December 10, 1995.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(signature in ink) "Me. Disderi" (in ink) "St. Mathieu - interior" (in pencil) "St. Mathieu - interior" verso-(in pencil) "70 (circled)"

NOTES: Catalogued 2/86, JL, updated 3/95, DZ/AS.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, interior
architecture, ruins
architecture, lighthouse