Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Renommée retenant Pégase, groupe sculpté d’Eugene-Louis Lequesne (from the series Le Nouvel Opera de Paris, Statues decoratives)
1865-1876
Louis-Emile Durandelle
14 3/4 x 11 inches (37.5 x 27.9 cm)
Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative
Classification: Photographs
Accession number: 2012.279
Provenance/Ownership History: About 1992, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; about 1992, sold by Fraenkel to Hans P. Kraus Fine Photographs, New York; 2012, sold by Hans Kraus to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 30, 2012)
Museum purchase with funds donated by the Friends of Photography