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GIORGIO SOMMER (1834-1914)
Tempio di Venere (Pompei), The Temple of Venus
titled and numbered (within the image)
albumen print, mounted on board
image: 11.2/8 x 147⁄8 in. (28.5 x 37.5 cm.)
Printed circa 1865.
Provenance
Jules Henri Jean Gruyer (1871-1929) donated by his son, J. E. Henri Barth (1853-1945), to the Catholic Institute of Paris in 1933, deaccessioned 2013.
James Hyman - Fine Art and Photographs, London.
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2014.
Literature
K. Schörle, Pompéi en Images, Giorgio Sommer, Pompeii in Pictures, France, 2015, pp. 24-25.
Exhibited
Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique, Pompéi en Images, Giorgio Sommer, Pompeii in Pictures, 19 June - 19 July, 2015.
Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique, 2014 - 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA167MA).
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