Nov 19, 2015 - Sale 2399

Sale 2399 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
GEORGES DORIVAL (1879-1968) ROME.
42 1/2x30 3/4 inches, 108x78 cm. Robaudy, Cannes.
Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins, some affecting text; restored loss along right edge.
The 13 km-long Alpine tunnel through Mount Cenis, depicted here, was completed in 1871, linking France's department of La Savoie with Italy's province of Turin. To encourage travelers on what was now a much shorter trip, the French Railway PLM used this evocatively-colored image of Roman ruins to lure passengers to the Italian capital. Voyage p. 139, Viaggio in Italia p. 108.