Los 4017

Béchard, Émile
(active 1869-1890)Grande Pyramide vue de l'Est

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Grande Pyramide vue de l'Est. 1870s. Albumen print. 28,8 x 42 cm. With the photographer's signature in the negative in lower right corner, as well as numbered and titled in the negative in lower left corner.

Émile Béchard produced some of the most evocative photographs of Egypt in the late 19th century. Unlike the large, highly commercial studios of Pascal Sébah, Félix Bonfils, Hippolyte Arnoux, and the Zangaki Brothers, Béchard’s practice was comparatively short-lived resulting in a more limited and consequently scarcer body of work. His photographs are distinguished by a restrained compositional elegance and quiet attention to light, scale, and atmosphere, lending his views of monuments and landscapes a contemplative quality that sets them apart from the more standardized tourist views of the period.