Feb 27, 2014 - Sale 2340

Sale 2340 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
DIEULEFILS, PIERRE (1862-1937)
Group of 14 scarce photographs of "Indochine," all occupational portraits, including fishermen in rivers, travellers posing with their bags, soldiers, and picturesque groups of entertainers. Albumen prints, 13 measuring approximately 9x6 3/4 inches (22.9x17.1 cm.), and the reverse, one is vignetted, each are mounted to card with a printed decorative border (half with an additional modern support mount), and with a caption and numeric notation in the negative, and all but one with the title also on a printed label on mount recto; one unmounted print measuring 8 1/8x10 1/2 inches (20.6x26.7 cm.), with a title, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. Circa 1890

Additional Details

Pêcheurs du grand lac, Hanoï Tirailleurs tonkinois Femmes de soldats Indigènes Chanteuses (2) Mandarins en palanquin Jeune homme Miliciens en faction Femme eu delta (Hung-yen) Pêcheurs des mares Bonzes en prières Décortication du riz Bonzes quêteurs the last, unmounted print, title not legible.