Lot n° 310
Estimation :
700 - 1000
EUR
A photographic album with a rich binding... - Lot 310 - Jean-Marc Delvaux
A photographic album with a rich binding covered in morocco and applied with copper ornamentation decorated with cherubs' heads and shells surrounded by foliage foliage and rockery crosspieces.
In the centre, the ALO numeral enamelled blue, white and red in a cartouche surrounded by cherubs symbolizing Sculpture and Painting, and a chimera head at the base.
The cover pages labelled with gouache The employees to their boss Léon OROSDI, on the occasion of his wedding, Paris, April 1887 among branches of orange blossoms.
Inside, an important set of photographs bearing the stamp of the REUTLINGER House, members of the Orosdi family, a Jewish family of Austro-Hungarian origin who took refuge in the Ottoman Empire after the fall of the Hungarian leader Kossuth
Allied to the Back, Another Jewish family of Austro-Hungarian origin, Léon and Philippe Orosdi, together with Hermann and Joseph
Back, led a chain of department stores in Europe and the Middle East to flourish, whose headquarters were established in Paris in 1888.
Léon Orosdi built up an important collection of paintings, including 22 Sisley, which was dispersed at the Hôtel Drouot on 25 May 1923.
41.5 x 31.5 cm.
In its original cardboard box imitating galvanized sheet metal, numbered ALO, the A probably the initial of his wife Marie Abeille's first name.
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