La Piazzetta à Venise

Baron A. Fays (French, 1801 – 1879)

about 1851

Medium/TechniquePhotograph, Blanquart-Evrard salt print from waxed paper negative

DimensionsSheet: 15 × 20.5 cm (5 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit LineBarbara M. Marshall Fund

Accession number2019.740

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InscriptionsInscribed in negative, lr: A. Fays On mount, letterpress, ctr: Photographie et édité par Blanquart-Evrard On mount, letterpress, left: Recueil Photographique On mount, letterpress, right: Imprimerie Photographique Blanquart Evrard, à Lille On mount, letterpress, ctr: Pl. 3 On mount, in pencil, botton ctr: La Piazetta à Venise

ProvenanceJune 13, 2017, anonymous sale, Millon, Paris, possibly lot 328. 2018, sold by Serge Kakou (dealer), Paris, to Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., Malvern, PA; 2019, sold by Charles Isaacs Photographs to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)