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Title: Views of Chile and Peru
Date (inclusive): approximately 1868
Number: 96.R.1
Creator/Collector:
Courret Hermanos
Physical Description:
2 album(s)
(94 photographs)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
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.
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Language: Collection material is in French.
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.
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Views of Chile and Peru, approximately 1868, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles,
Accession no. 96.R.1.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r1
Cataloged by Martha Steele in 2001. Cataloging updated and finding aid written by Beth Ann
Guynn in 2014.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Organized in two series:
Series I: Album I [Chile and Peru], approximately 1868;
Series II: Album II
[Chile], approximatley 1868.
Legoupy, Adolphe
Courret, Eugenio, 1841-
Courret, Aquiles
Catedral de Arequipa
Catedral de Lima
Catedral de Santiago de
Chile
Landscapes -- Chile
Architecture, Domestic -- Peru -- Lima
Gardens -- Peru -- Chorillos
Harbors -- Peru -- Callao
Harbors -- Chile -- Arica
Indigenous peoples -- Peru -- Portraits
Harbors -- Peru -- Arica
Earthquakes -- Peru -- Arequipa
Indigenous peoples -- Chile -- Portraits
Tsunamis -- Chile -- Arica
Plaza mayor (Santiago, Chile)
Peru -- Description and travel
Bolivia -- Description and travel
Chile -- Description and travel
Plaza de Armas (Lima, Peru)
Plaza de Armas (Arequipa, Peru)
Photograph albums -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Chile -- 19th century
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- Peru -- 19th century
Studio portraits -- Peru -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Bolivia -- 19th century
Courret Hermanos