Finding aid for D. Freuler, Holyrood, 124, avenue de Wagram, Paris, circa
1870-1879
Beth Ann Guynn
Descriptive Summary
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
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Los Angeles 90049-1688
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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
Biographical / Historical
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/
Administrative Information
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
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.
Processing Information
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn and Nieves Maria Rocha in 2019.
Digitized Material
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.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in a single series:
Series I. D. Freuler, Holyrood, 124
Avenue de Wagram, Paris, circa 1870-1879.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Caithness, Marie Sinclair, Countess of, 1830-1895
Agnes, Charles des
Subjects - Topics
Interior decoration -- France --
Paris
Furniture -- France -- Paris
Art objects -- France --
Paris
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
-- France -- Paris
Dwellings -- France -- Paris
Subjects - Places
Paris (France) -- Buildings,
structures, etc.
Genres and Forms of Material
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- France -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- France -- 19th century
Contributors
Freuler, D.
Box 1
Series 1.
D. Freuler, Holyrood, 124, avenue de Wagram, Paris,
circa 1870-1879
Arrangement
In original order.
Box 1, Page front
endpapers
90.R.72-fe
Front endpapers
Box 1, Page front free endpaper
verso
90.R.72-fe_v
Verso of front free endpaper
Box 1, Page 1 recto
90.R.72-1r
Lady Caithness, Duchesse de Pomár
Box 1, Page 2 recto
90.R.72-2r
Façade, avenue Wagram
Box 1, Page 3 recto
90.R.72-3r
Façade, rue Brémontier
Box 1, Page 4 recto
90.R.72-4r
Jardin Renaissance
Box 1, Page 5 recto
90.R.72-5r
Salle des gardes
Box 1, Page 6 recto
90.R.72-6r
Grand escalier
Box 1, Page 7 recto
90.R.72-7r
Palier du grand escalier
Box 1, Page 8 recto
90.R.72-8r
Salle des fêtes
Scope and Content Note
View looking towards entrance to room.
Box 1, Page 9 recto
90.R.72-9r
Salle des fêtes
Scope and Content Note
Far end of the room.
Box 1, Page 10 recto
90.R.72-10r
Salle des fêtes
Scope and Content Note
Corner to one side of entrance.
Box 1, Page 11 recto
90.R.72-11r
Jardin d'hiver
Box 1, Page 13 recto
90.R.72-13r
Salon vénitien
Box 1, Page 14 recto
90.R.72-14r
Chapelle royale, sanctuaire de la reine
Box 1, Page 15 recto
90.R.72-15r
Salle à manger
Scope and Content Note
View with fireplace.
Box 1, Page 16 recto
90.R.72-16r
Salle à manger
Scope and Content Note
View with stained glass windows.
Box 1, Page 17 recto
90.R.72-17r
Chambre de la duchesse
Scope and Content Note
View with fireplace.
Box 1, Page 18 recto
90.R.72-18r
Chambre de la duchesse
Scope and Content Note
View looking towards bed.
Box 1, Page 20 recto
90.R.72-20r
Chambre du duc
Box 1, Page 20 verso
90.R.72-20v
[Photographer's Imprint]
Scope and Content Note
D. Freuler, Phot. / 195 rue de Vaugiard, 195 - Paris.
Box 1, Page back end
papers
90.R.72-be
Back endpapers