Lot 81
CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF
Lot 81 Details
CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF
FOURTEEN CARTES DE VISITE
photo-reproductions
each mounted to card, nine hand-coloured; nine printed on reverse “Moulin, Photographe, 23, Rue Richer, Paris”, one with a partial imprint of “C. Krieghoff” along lower edge and “Entered, according to Act of the Provincial Legislature, in the year 1864, by C. Krieghoff in the office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada” printed on the reverse and “2950” inscribed in graphite on the reverse; eight numbered “2/6” on the reverse in graphite; three numbered “1/3” on the reverse in graphite; one titled “Salmon Fishing by Moonlight” on the reverse in graphite; one inscribed “2950” on the reverse, sold “as is” and not subject to return (14 works)
each overall approximately 2.5 ins x 4 ins; 6.3 cms x 10 cms
Estimate $3,000-$5,000
Additional Images
Provenance:
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Note:
These works represent images which were marketed by Krieghoff during the late 1860s. One of the hand-coloured works in this collection, a tobogganing scene, is one of thirteen images which the artist formally copyrighted in April of 1864. It is believed that Krieghoff may have sold these works himself, representing some of the earliest (and smallest) limited edition reproductions of the artist’s work.
Krieghoff was represented in the Canadian section of the International Exhibition of Arts and Manufacturers in Dublin in 1865 by nine large hand-coloured photos and twenty coloured cartes-de-visite of his paintings made by the Quebec firm of Ellison & Co. It is believed that the images created by Moulin in Paris (of which nine of the works in this lot are stamped on the reverse) were created during the same period.