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Songbird automaton, 19th/20th century, cage in classical dome shape with 2 birds. Winding mechanism under the base, function tested, dusty, h. 28 cm

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Songbird automaton, 19th/20th century, cage in classical dome shape with 2 birds. Winding mechanism under the base, function tested, dusty, h. 28 cm

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MAISON ALPHONSE GIROUX ( act. 1799-1867). Etagère; c. 1860. Chiseled and burnished bronze with engraved glass plates. Work reproduced in C. Payne, Paris Furniture: the luxury market of the 19th century, Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2018, p. 77 (illustrated). Signed Aph Giroux Paris. Measurements: 89.5 x 48 x 48 cm. Etagère made of gilded bronze and Japanese-style glass in its design. Japanese products became increasingly familiar in Paris thanks to a large exhibition in the Japanese pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 1867 and later in Vienna in 1873. The Parisian firms Christofle and Barbedienne were the main exponents of the new fashion for Japonisme. It was applied mainly to metal furniture with little or no woodwork. In the Western decorative arts and mixed motifs and Japanese in the same object, which can often make it difficult, if not impossible, to define precisely whether the object should be described as chinoiserie or Japonisme. A magazine called Art Amateur in New York was one of the first to use the word "japanesque" as an appropriate response to Giroux's cabinet. Two designer makers and early advocates of an oriental style in Paris were Giroux and Duvinage. The former sold his store to Ferdinand Duvinage and his partner Harinckouk in 1867. Giroux mainly adapted Chinese art; his publication Meubles et fantaisies, circa 1840, shows tables in this new fashionable idiom and is reminiscent of the papier-mâché furniture of the same period. Work reproduced in C. Payne, Paris Furniture: the luxury market of the 19th century, Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2018, p. 77 (illustrated). Signed Aph Giroux Paris.

Starting price 400 EUR

FRATELLI ALINARI (19th) Circle, Dom, Duomo, Florenz, around 1880, albumen paper print Fratelli Alinari (19th century) Circle: View over the rooftops of Florence 'Italy: Florence Cathedral', c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print, mounted on Cardboard Inscription: At the lower part inscribed on the support: "Italien: Der Dom zu Florenz". Date: c. 1880 Description: Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria del Fiore. It was consecrated by Pope Eugene IV on 24 March 1436 and bears the title of a "Basilica minor". Original photograph with high detail sharpness. An early testimony to travel photography. Around the middle of the 19th century, more and more tourists from bourgeois circles travelled to Italy. At that time, photographs could only be taken at great expense in terms of time and with expensive, unwieldy equipment. This made many tourists all the more grateful for the work of the professional photographer's studios on site, so that they could bring back a souvenir from their holiday home or collect them as mementos. Famous photographers such as Carlo Naya, Giorgio Sommer and the Alinari brothers photographed the most famous sights in their home cities and travelled themselves to photograph their customers' favourite destinations and offer them as albumen prints. Ancient art treasures were also photographed and offered to travellers. The high-quality photographs of sculptures and frescoes continued to make an important contribution to documenting the art treasures and making them accessible to scholars from all over Europe, who previously had to rely on copies or engravings if they were unable to view the original themselves. "Fratelli Alinari" in Florence are the oldest surviving photographic company in the world: founded in 1852, a good two decades after the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce succeeded in capturing an image on a tin plate. The Alinari brothers were Romualdo (1830-1891), Leopoldo (1832-1865) and Guiseppe (1836-1892). Leopoldo began taking photographs during the daguerreotype period and worked for the lithographer Guiseppe Bardi, with whom he founded a joint photographic studio in 1850. In 1854, Leopoldo bought Bardi's shares and, together with his brothers, founded the Fratelli Alinari studio. It became one of the most important Italian studios of the 19th century and later one of the largest photographic archives in the world, which still exists today. Keywords: Italy view, travel photography, architectural photography, documentary photography, documentation, photo album, Santa Maria del Fiore, church building, cathedral, dome church, cultural monument, 19th century, Historicism, Cities, Italy, Size: Cardboard: 29,3 cm x 34,0 cm (11,5 x 13,4 in), Depiction: 18,6 cm x 24,5 cm (7,3 x 9,6 in)

Starting price 200 EUR

Kreuzigung Christi. 1. Hälfte 19. Jh. Öl auf Leinwand. 57,5 x 45 cm. - Die Leinwand doubliert. Partiell mit leichtem Craquelée. Firniß etwas angegilbt. Insgesamt gut. Deutsch, 19. Jahrhundert Kreuzigung Christi. 1. Hälfte 19. Jh. Öl auf Leinwand. 57,5 x 45 cm. - Die Leinwand doubliert. Partiell mit leichtem Craquelée. Firniß etwas angegilbt. Insgesamt gut. Dargestellt ist Jesus Christus am Kreuz, zu Füßen einer der Apostel, der ihn beweint. - Das Gemälde veorten wir in der deutschen Schule der 1. Hälfte des 19. Jh. Oil on canvas. - The canvas is doubled. Partially with slight craquelure. Firnis somewhat yellowed. Overall good. - Jesus Christ is depicted on the cross, with one of the apostles weeping at his feet. - We locate the painting in the German school of the first half of the 19th century.

Starting price 200 EUR

Gérard (nach), FrançoisMiniatur-Porträt von Juliette Récamier. Spätes 19. Jh. Gouache auf Bein. Ca. 8 x 6,5 cm. Gerahmt. Miniaturen Gérard (nach), François Miniatur-Porträt von Juliette Récamier. Spätes 19. Jh. Gouache auf Bein. Ca. 8 x 6,5 cm. Gerahmt. Feinmalerische Kopie nach dem berühmten Gemälde des französischen Meisters Baron Gérard, welches um 1802 entstand und sich heute im Pariser Musée Carnavalet befindet. - Sehr gut erhalten. François Gérard (after). Portrait of Juliette Récamier. Late 19th century. Gouache on bone. Framed. - Finely painted copy after the famous painting by the French master Baron Gérard, which was created around 1802 and is now in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris. - In very good condition.

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