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Title: D. Freuler, Holyrood, 124, avenue de Wagram, Paris
Date (inclusive): circa 1870-1879
Number: 90.R.72
Creator/Collector:
Freuler, D.
Physical Description:
1 Linear Foot
(1 box)
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 album of twenty albumen photographs
by D. Freuler documents Holyrood, an opulent Parisian townhouse on Avenue de Wagram designed
by Charles des Anges, that was home to Marie Sinclair, Lady Caithness and duchesse de Pomár,
the second wife of James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness.
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Language: Collection material is in French
D. Freuler was a photographer active in Paris during the last decades of the nineteenth
century. He had studios successively at 8, rue Barbouillère; 195,rue de Vaugirard; and 169,
rue de Vaugirard.
Sources consulted:
____, "D. Frueler,"
BnF Data.
https://data.bnf.fr/fr/15613918/d__freuler/
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D. Freuler, Holyrood, 124 Avenue de Wagram, Paris, circa 1870-1879, The Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 90.R.72.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa90r72
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 1990.
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn and Nieves Maria Rocha in 2019.
The collection was digitized by the repository in 2019 and the images are available
online:
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of twenty albumen photographs documents Holyrood, an opulent Parisian townhouse
on Avenue de Wagram designed by Charles des Anges, that was home to Marie Sinclair, Lady
Caithness and duchesse de Pomár. Marie Sinclair (1830-1895) née de Mariategui, the daughter
of a Spanish nobleman and an English aristocrat, was the widow of General le Comte de Medina
Pomár and the second wife of James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness. After the earl's death in
1881 she took the house on the Avenue de Wagram as her primary residence, naming it Holyrood
and modeling its rooms on those of Holyrood Palace in recognition of the spiritual
connection she felt to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Lady Caithness was a theosophist who
quietly funded the Theosophical Society and was instrumental in establishing theosophy in
France, where she founded and later became President of the Société Théosophique d'Orient et
d'Occident. Her Holyrood was the scene of many theosophical soirées.
Included in the album are three exterior views of the Renaissance style house, several
views of the grand staircase and a painted portrait of Lady Caithness. Notable rooms
depicted include the salle des fêtes, (sculpture, several tiers of paintings, decorative
arts); the salon vénetien; the chapelle royale; the grand salon; the chambre de la duchesse
(with several religious paintings); the salon du duc (featuring porcelain); and the salon
des gardes (armor).
The album has red cloth covers with its title debossed in gilt on the front cover. French
captions are printed on the mounts below the photographs. The architect's name is printed
below the lower left corner of the photograph on 14 mounts: Chles. des Agnes, Arch. The
photographer's imprint appears on the verso of the last photograph in the album: D. Freuler,
Phot. / 195, rue de Vaugirard, 195 - Paris.
Sources consulted:
___, "Marie, Duchess de Pomár, Countess of Caithness,"
ipernity. http://www.ipernity.com/doc/302051/29856141
Henderson, Thomas Finlayson, "Sinclair, James (1821-1881),"
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co.,
1897.
Johnson, K. Paul,
The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the
Myth of the Great White Lodge
. SUNY Press, 1994.
The collection is arranged in a single series:
Series I. D. Freuler, Holyrood, 124
Avenue de Wagram, Paris, circa 1870-1879.
Caithness, Marie Sinclair, Countess of, 1830-1895
Agnes, Charles des
Interior decoration -- France --
Paris
Furniture -- France -- Paris
Art objects -- France --
Paris
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
-- France -- Paris
Dwellings -- France -- Paris
Paris (France) -- Buildings,
structures, etc.
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- France -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- France -- 19th century
Freuler, D.