Louis-Emile Durandelle
Portrait of Louis Émile Durandelle by Louis Thiriot
Born(1839-02-14)February 14, 1839[1][2]
Verdun
DiedMarch 12, 1917(1917-03-12) (aged 78)[3]
Bois-Colombes
Louis-Emile Durandelle, The Eiffel Tower - State of the Construction, 1888

Louis-Emile Durandelle (14 February 1839 – 12 March 1917) was a French architectural photographer. Durandelle is best known for his documentary photographs of the construction of Parisian buildings, including the Eiffel Tower and the Paris Opera.

Career

From 1854 to 1862 he worked with Hyacinthe César Delmaet and Dalmaet's wife Clémence Jacob as the company Delmaet & Durandelle.[4][5] The trio lived and worked from 30-32 Chaussé de Cligancourt in Paris.[5] After the death of Delmaet in 1862, Durandelle married Dalmaet's widow, who kept the name Clémence Jacob Dalmaet.[6][5][7]

By 1868 the company was operating from 4 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre.[8] Following Delmaet's death, Durandelle documented the construction of the Hotel-Dieu de Paris, Sacre Cour, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the theater at Monte Carlo and the 1882-1884 excavations under the Louvre Museum.[9] In 1871 Between 1870 and 1871 he photographed the Paris Commune, the insurrection against the government of Napoleon III.[4]

Durandelle published a portfolio in 1876, in collaboration with Charles Garnier, titled Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale, documenting the Paris Opéra's sculptural decoration.[4][10] He photographed the construction of the Eiffel Tower from 1887 until 1889.[4][11]

After the death of his wife in 1890, Dandurelle sold the photography business, along with its negatives, to his assistant and stopped taking photographs.[5][9]

Collections

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "Naissances, Mariages, Décès (1839-1839) (2 E 558 (85)) - Archive..." Mnesys.
  2. ^ Leblanc, Charlotte. "Louis Émile Durandelle (1839-1917) : un photographe au service des architectes". Architectes et photographes au xixe siècle. Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art. ISBN 978-2-917902-62-2.
  3. ^ "GAIA 9 : moteur de recherche". consultation.archives.hauts-de-seine.net.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Louis-Émile Durandelle (French, 1839 - 1917) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
  5. ^ a b c d Nilsen, Micheline (5 July 2017). Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-57598-0.
  6. ^ a b "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
  7. ^ Bernard, Bruce; Haworth-Booth, Mark (25 October 2002). One Hundred Photographs. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-4278-3.
  8. ^ Frizot, Michel; Albert, Pierre; Harding, Colin (1998). A New History of Photography. Könemann. ISBN 978-3-8290-1328-4.
  9. ^ a b Hannavy, John (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-87327-1.
  10. ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle". www.clarkart.edu.
  11. ^ a b "Musée d'Orsay: Louis-Emile Durandelle Construction of the Eiffel Tower, 1887". www.musee-orsay.fr.
  12. ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle". The Art Institute of Chicago.
  13. ^ "Bas-relief de la partie supérieure de la voûte - Vestibule octogone". www.cca.qc.ca.
  14. ^ "Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris : statues décoratives. Groupes et bas reliefs". Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine (in French).
  15. ^ France), Musée national des monuments français (Paris (1994). Photographier l'architecture, 1851-1920: collection du Musée des monuments français : Musée national des monuments français, 18 mars-20 juin 1994 [et] Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, Palais Longchamp, 1er juillet-1er septembre 1994 (in French). Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux. ISBN 978-2-7118-2962-0.
  16. ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle". www.metmuseum.org.
  17. ^ "Le Nouvel Opera de Paris- Statues Decoratives, Louis-Emile Durandelle; Editor: Durand et Cie ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org.
  18. ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle – Artists/Makers – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". art.nelson-atkins.org.
  19. ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  20. ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle". www.gallery.ca.
  21. ^ "Durandelle, Louis-Émile · SFMOMA". SFMOMA.
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