Les Halles, Paris, view of the southwest pavilion during construction
Original Language TitleHalles Centrales à Paris, vue du pavillon sud-ouest pendant le montage
Artist
Alphonse Louis Poitevin
(French, 1819 - 1882)
Date1856
MediumPhotolithograph
DimensionsImage and sheet (oval): 6 5/8 × 9 3/8 inches (16.84 × 23.83 cm)
Mount: 10 7/8 × 14 inches (27.61 × 35.56 cm)
Mount: 10 7/8 × 14 inches (27.61 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2020.7.82
SignedOn mount recto, lower right, printed in brown ink: "Photolithographie, Poitevin, Paris."
InscribedOn mount recto, top, printed in brown ink: "Revue Générale de l'Architecture et des Travaux Public's__8, Place St. Michel, Paris / Dirigé par MEICÉSAR DELY, Architecte. / XVIIE ANNÉE DE LA FONDATION.";
On mount recto, upper left, printed in brown ink: "Anneé 1856";
On mount recto, upper right, printed in brown ink: "Pl. 41";
On mount recto, bottom, printed in brown ink: "HALLES CENTRALES A PARIS, / VUE DU PAVILLON SUD-OUEST PENDANT LE MONTAGE".
Markingsnone
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Terms
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas CIty, MO, 2020;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2020.
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