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Teynard, Félix
(1817-1892)Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Face Posterieure

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Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d’Athôr - Face postérieure (plate 24, “Égypte et Nubie”). 1851-52. Salted paper print, printed 1853-54, mounted on the original album page. 25,2 x 31 cm (mount 39,5 x 50,5 cm). Title, plate number, and publisher’s imprint printed below the image on the mount.

Félix Teynard, an engineer and self-taught photographer, traveled through Egypt between late 1851-1852 with the aim of producing photographic views of architectural monuments to supplement the engravings published following the Napoleonic expeditions (1809-1829). Working with a large-format camera, he used the waxed paper negative process popularized by Gustave Le Gray, enabling him to achieve exceptional detail under difficult conditions. Around 160 photographs from this journey were published in Égypte et Nubie: sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l’étude de l’art et de l’histoire, of which only about a dozen complete copies survive. Teynard’s photographs were met with considerable critical acclaim and were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855.