Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Vincennes Railway Overpass, rue de la Voûte, Paris
about 1880
Louis Lafon
Sheet: 37.5 x 47.6 cm (14 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative
Classification: Photographs
Accession number: 2011.2144
Provenance/Ownership History: Laurent Herschtritt, Six Fours Les Plages, France; 2007, purchased by Charles Isaacs, New York, NY; from whom given to the MFA, Boston. (Accession Date: 25 January 2012)
Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro in honor of Saundra B. Lane