[Touraine] Constant Peigné, VUES ET CHÂTEAUX DE LA LOIRE.Tou - Lot 699

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[Touraine] Constant Peigné, VUES ET CHÂTEAUX DE LA LOIRE.Tou - Lot 699
[Touraine] Constant Peigné, VUES ET CHÂTEAUX DE LA LOIRE.Tours,C. Peigné s. d. [circa 1881-1893]. 1 vol. in-folio oblong. Burgundy percaleine, bold and lean cold frames, gilt title and publisher's name on upper board, blue-gray paper lining and endpapers. 20 original photographs by Constant Peigné mounted on heavy paper, depicting views and monuments of the towns of Tours, Azay-le-Rideau, Blois, Chaumont, Chenonceau, Chinon... A photographer in Nantes since the late 1850s, Constant Peigné moved to Tours in 1881. His studio on rue de l'Oratoire, named rue Néricault-Destouches in 1886, was one of the most important in the city during the Third Republic. In 1892, he bought Gabriel Blaise's studio. While maintaining his studios in Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, Peigné took part in numerous art and industry exhibitions in the 1880s. He won gold and silver medals, including a silver at the 1889 Paris Universal Exhibition. In 1893, he left Tours to run his various photography studios in Loire-Atlantique. He died in Tours in 1916. Beautiful album preserved in its publisher's burgundy percaline binding. Rubbing and stains to binding; wear and tears to endpapers, two leaves detached.
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