150 - [MENIER (Family) - Photographs - Yachting]. Album containing 176 small silver-gelatin prints (6 × 8 cm when laid flat). Undated [late 19th–early 20th century]. Small oblong quarto, green embossed percaline, spine worn. An interesting photographic album from the Menier collection, documenting several cruises along the coasts of Brittany, Normandy, and England.

[MENIER (Family) - Photographs - Yachting]. Album containing 176 small silver-gelatin prints (6 × 8 cm when laid flat). Undated [late 19th–early 20th century]. Small oblong quarto, green embossed percaline, spine worn. An interesting photographic album from the Menier collection, documenting several cruises along the coasts of Brittany, Normandy, and England. The collection brings together 176 original photographs documenting an extensive maritime journey, featuring views of ports, coastal landscapes, monuments, and scenes of daily life. The photographs notably depict stops in Port-Navalo, Auray, Sainte-Anne-d’Auray, Morgat, Douarnenez, Belle-Île, Concarneau, Bénodet, Quimper, Brest, Plougastel, Le Faou, Rumengol, Châteaulin, and Morlaix, as well as in the Channel Islands (Guernsey) and along the English coast, notably on the Isle of Wight (Ryde, Cowes, Carisbrooke), Portsmouth, and Cherbourg. Several views taken from the ship’s deck evoke the atmosphere of the private cruises enjoyed by the upper class during the Belle Époque. Provenance: the Menier family, a famous dynasty of chocolate manufacturers, including Gaston Menier (1855–1934), owner of several steam yachts—notably the Julie and the Ariane—who was a passionate sailing enthusiast.