Views of Chile and Peru, approximately 1868

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Summary

Title:
Views of Chile and Peru
Dates:
approximately 1868
Creators:
Courret Hermanos
Abstract:
The collection comprises two albums containing a total of 94 photographs by Courret Hermanos. Each album begins with portraits, followed by photographs of sites in and around the major cities of Peru and Chile. Album I [Peru and Chile] contains 42 photographs, while the Album II [Chile] contains 52 photographs.
Extent:
2 album(s) (94 photographs)
Language:
Collection material is in French.
Preferred citation:

Views of Chile and Peru, approximately 1868, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 96.R.1.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r1

Background

Scope and content:

The collection comprises two albums bound in red morocco containing photographs by Courret Hermanos. Each album begins with portraits, followed by photographs of sites in and around the major cities of Peru and Chile. Album I [Peru and Chile] contains 42 photographs, while the Album II [Chile] contains 52 photographs.

The compiler(s) of the albums is unknown.

Both albums are bound in red morocco. The endpapers (paste-downs and free endpapers) are covered in emerald green silk moiré. The front free endpapers are each gilt stamped with a heraldic device. In album I a shield is divided in three parts containing a horse, a tree, and a cornucopia. The shield is surmounted by wings and a laurel wreath and flanked by gold flourishes. In album II a shield divided in two parts with a large star in its middle is flanked by a crowned rampant lion and a crowned rampant eagle and surmounted by plumes with flourishes below. A label on the verso of the front free endpaper in each album reads: Adolphe Legoupy / Marchand d'Estampes / 5 Boul. de la Madeleine / Paris.

French titles are from the annotations on the mount versos; English titles are devised. Many of the mounts are blind stamped in oval format: Courret Hermanos / Fotografos / Calle Mercadres, 197 / Lima.

Biographical / historical:

The French photographer Eugenio Courret (1841-190?) was associated with the photography studio of Manoury y Ca. in Lima, Peru from 1861 until 1863, when he established the Fotografía Central studio with his brother Aquiles (Aguiles; 1830-?). Eugenio was the photographer and Aquiles managed the business that became known as Courret Hermanos. Aquiles left the firm in 1877. Eugenio returned to France in 1892, eventually selling the firm to Adolfo Dubreuil, whose family ran the studio under the Courret name until 1934.

Processing information:

Cataloged by Martha Steele in 2001. Cataloging updated and finding aid written by Beth Ann Guynn in 2014.

Arrangement:

Arranged in two series: Series I: Album I [Chile and Peru], approximately 1868; Series II: Album II [Chile], approximatley 1868.

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About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Beth Ann Guynn
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-06-26 10:14:24 -0700 .

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Preferred citation:

Views of Chile and Peru, approximately 1868, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 96.R.1.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r1

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