Intérieur de la chapelle du château d'Arenenberg, Thugovie, Suisse
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1885
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
85 x 172 x 3 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521132.17
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting the interior of the chapel of the Château d'Arenenberg, Thurgau, Switzerland. It shows chairs in the foreground, with religeous paintings on the walls and the alter at the rear. There is a partial view of a statue on the right. Arenenberg was sold to Hortense de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter and sister-in-law of Napoleon I. She commissioned the modification of the castle in the style of the French Empire and lived there from 1817 onwards with her son Louis Napoleon, who later became Emperor Napoleon III. Part of a series by Ferrier père, fils et Soulier (Charles Soulier and Claude-Marie Ferrier) is visible on the bottom righthand side of the slide. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures on one piece of glass, and covered with a second piece of glass inside. There is black paper around the outer edges to bind the two pieces of glass. Markings: On a white paper label on the righthand edge of the slide is handwritten in black ink: "4650 Intérieur de la chapelle du château d'Arenenberg, Thugovie, Suisse" Printed within the black border of the slide, bottom left, is: "4650 Intérieur de la chapelle du château d'Arenenberg, Thugovie, Suisse" Printed within the black border of the slide, bottom right, is: "Ferrier pere, fils et Soulier"
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986