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Views of Chile and Peru
96.R.1
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Views of Chile and Peru
Creator:
Courret Hermanos
Identifier/Call Number: 96.R.1
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/601
Physical Description:
2 album(s)
(94 photographs)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1868
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 of Material: Collection material is in French.
Scope and Contents 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.
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.
Arranged in two series: Series I: Album I [Chile and Peru], approximately 1868; Series II: Album II [Chile], approximatley
1868.
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Cataloged by Martha Steele in 2001. Cataloging updated and finding aid written by Beth Ann Guynn in 2014.
Views of Chile and Peru, approximately 1868, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 96.R.1.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r1
The collection was digitized by the repository in 2015 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/96r1
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Landscapes -- Chile
Architecture, Domestic -- Peru -- Lima
Gardens -- Peru -- Chorillos
Harbors -- Peru -- Callao
Harbors -- Chile -- Arica
Indigenous peoples -- Peru -- Portraits
Harbors -- Peru -- Arica
Plaza mayor (Santiago, Chile)
Earthquakes -- Peru -- Arequipa
Peru -- Description and travel
Photograph albums -- 19th century
Bolivia -- Description and travel
Chile -- Description and travel
Plaza de Armas (Lima, Peru)
Plaza de Armas (Arequipa, Peru)
Indigenous peoples -- Chile -- Portraits
Tsunamis -- Chile -- Arica
Albumen prints -- Chile -- 19th century
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- Peru -- 19th century
Studio portraits -- Peru -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Bolivia -- 19th century
Legoupy, Adolphe
Courret, Eugenio, 1841-
Courret, Aquiles
Catedral de Arequipa
Catedral de Lima
Catedral de Santiago de Chile