(STEREOGRAPHS) Marché desclaves en Orient

Sale 2135 - Lot 37

Unsold

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

(STEREOGRAPHS)
"Marché d'esclaves en Orient." Set of 6 stereo views of a slave market. Albumen prints, each with the name of the series and the series number in the plate on the original mount with the publisher, Collection E. H., Paris, stamped on mount recto; in the original presentation box, with a list of all the publisher's titles printed on the inside cover. Circa 1870

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From the Bert Hartkamp Collection, Amsterdam; to the present owner in 2003.

This unusual series of images, which shows a group of young Caucasian and Arab women being evaluated by a potential buyer, appears to have been photographed out-of-doors given the radiant natural light bathing the subjects. However, the foreground depicts a wooden floor (or platform) that is covered by an Oriental carpet, indicating the sequence of photographs may be a "tableau vivant. "

JPGs are available upon request.