[PHOTOGRAPH]. [BONNEFOY DU CHARMEL (Alain)]. - Lot 45

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[PHOTOGRAPH]. [BONNEFOY DU CHARMEL (Alain)]. - Lot 45
[PHOTOGRAPH]. [BONNEFOY DU CHARMEL (Alain)]. Ten years. 1910 - 1920Album of photographs of various sizes carefully pasted on cardboard boards and captioned, collected in a volume in-4 . Bound in half havana morocco with corners, spine with 5 nerves, gilt title, gilt head. Dimensions : 230 x 287 mm2 ff. of table of photographs (handwritten) + 91 ff. numbered in pencil . Detailed captions handwritten in black ink, sometimes very technical, giving the photographic process. Missing the photograph of page 64 of the castle of Vaussieux. Album composed by Baron Alain du Charmel (1873-1935), gathering moments of his life over a period from 1910 to 1920: scenes of hunting, fishing, acrobatics on horseback and scenes between friends at the castle of Valençay (Indre), family scenes at Vaussieux (Vaux-sur-Seulles in the department of Calvados, in the region of Normandy) and in Paris, rue de Penthièvre (Aymar du Charmel, Baroness du Charmel). Photographs of travel to Tyrol, Switzerland, Hungary, Calaoutza (Basque Country). Let us point out in 1915, photographs of the automobile section the T.M.373 (constituted in Versailles in 1915) of which Alain du Charmel was a member, under the command of the second lieutenant of Glatigny. There are superb photographs of Annamite (Vietnamese) motorists fishing by hand in the marshes of St Goud (Marne), in 1917, being part of the same automobile section under the command of Lieutenant Troupeau. Some photos of friends including the Duke of Valençay, Jean Verdi Delisle, Rita Selafare, Jean de Berteux, Octave de Kergorlay, Countess François de Castries, Luzarche d'azay, Camille Legoff, etc. Provenance: Baron du Charmel (1873-1934).
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