Los 4099

Paris Commune
Album Photographique des Ruines de Paris

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

Photographer: P. Loubère (life dates unknown). Album Photographique des Ruines de Paris: Collection de tous les monuments et édifices incendiés et détruits par la Commune de Paris. 1871. 21 albumen prints, mounted to album pages. Each ca. 9,5 x 12,7 cm (mounts 21,2 x 26,8 cm). Each titled in the negative in the lower left margin. Presented in a red canvas album with gilt-stamped title and decorative elements.

This album presents a systematic photographic survey of the destruction in Paris following the suppression of the Commune in May 1871, including major sites such as the Hôtel de Ville, the Tuileries, the Palais de Justice, and the Place Vendôme with its toppled column. The views range from monumental façades to detailed scenes of devastation, recording gutted interiors, skeletal structures, and debris-filled streets, sometimes animated by figures and carts. Together, the images articulate both the urban and military dimensions of the conflict, underscoring the scale and immediacy of the destruction. The album also includes a composite plate of oval portrait medallions depicting leading figures of the Commune.