953 - Germany - Potsdam - Michiels, Johann Franz. The Peace Church in Sanssouci Park. Original photograph. Vintage. Saltpaper print, mounted on thin cardboard. This one bears a dry stamp: Cologne, F. C. Eisen, 1856. Print: 25 x 37.7 cm. Mount: 44.6 x 56.2 cm.

Germany - Potsdam - Michiels, Johann Franz. The Peace Church in Sanssouci Park. Original photograph. Vintage. Saltpaper print, mounted on thin cardboard. This one bears a dry stamp: Cologne, F. C. Eisen, 1856. Print: 25 x 37.7 cm. Mount: 44.6 x 56.2 cm. A rare example of early Potsdam photography. Michiels is best known for his photographs of Cologne Cathedral. Four of his large-format, sharply defined images of Potsdam were shown in 2006 as part of the exhibition “Auslöser Potsdam”; others are known only from an advertisement that the publisher Eisen published in 1858 in the Leipzig “Illustrirte Zeitung” (reproduced in Heidtmann, *Wie das Photo ins Buch kam*, p. 55). - This photograph shows the Friedenskirche—whose bell tower was not completed until 1850—as seen from the Marlygarten, with a view into the atrium; Thorwaldsen’s “Blessing Jesus” is also visible. - The foreground is overexposed; the backing cardboard has faint creases and mold stains, but is otherwise in good condition.