FRANCE - PARIS COMMUNE - ALPHONSE LIÉBERT 1826-1913 - Lot 327

FRANCE - PARIS COMMUNE - ALPHONSE LIÉBERT 1826-1913 Group of monuments destroyed and/or burned during the Paris Commune, 1871. Photographs. 20 albumen prints, captioned below the image and mounted on cardboard in the author's name. Fort d'Aubervilliers: Prussian gunners inside a bastion, view of the Casemates with a group of Prussians, burnt-out Palais de Saint-Cloud, burnt-out Palais des Tuileries (interior and exterior), burnt-out Château de Meudon, ruined Pont d'Asnières, Federated barricades at Place de la Concorde and Rue de Rivoli built by Gaillard père, burnt-out Palais de Justice and Sainte-Chapelle, burnt-out Légion d'Honneur, destroyed interior of Hôtel de Ville, Porte Maillot, Fort de Vanves. Images: 19.3 x 24.3 cm; mounts: 32.6 x 42 cm Alphonse Liébert photographed the buildings destroyed by the fighting and fires of Bloody Week, as well as the barricades built by the Communards. He was the only person to photograph the ruins in the inner suburbs of Paris after the bombardment by the Prussian army. His animated views, including 2 very well contrasted prints, are particularly rare.