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4031 - De Clercq, Louis
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De Clercq, Louis Baalbeck. (Heliopolis) Grandes assises du temple du Soleil. 1859. Albumen print from a paper negative, mounted on card. 28 x 21.4 cm (mount 59.5 x 45.5 cm). Printed title and caption: “Grandes assises du temple du Soleil.”; numbered “36” in the lower right corner. Plate 36 from de Clercq’s *Voyage en Orient. Villes, monuments, et vues pittoresques de Syrie*, taken during the 1859 archaeological expedition to Syria and Asia Minor led by Emmanuel-Guillaume Rey. Rather than presenting Baalbek as a panoramic ruin, de Clercq brings the camera close to its colossal foundation courses, making the ancient masonry’s scale, sequence, and weathered surface the subject of the photograph. The unusually restrained composition is characteristic of his work: a precise archaeological record that also lends monumental architecture a striking formal presence. – Mount with some handling creases, light soiling, and a few small marks. Print with two small retouched spots; otherwise a strong tonal print in very good condition. Lit.: Rolf Mayer, ed., Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (exhibition catalog). Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989, ill. p. 90, fig. 36.
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