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CHARLES MARVILLE (French, 1816-1879) BAGATELLE: LE 4ème MARQUIS DE HEREFORD, MADAME OGER ET RICHARD

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CHARLES MARVILLE (French, 1816-1879) BAGATELLE: LE 4ème MARQUIS DE HEREFORD, MADAME OGER ET RICHARD
CHARLES MARVILLE (French, 1816-1879) BAGATELLE: LE 4ème MARQUIS DE HEREFORD, MADAME OGER ET RICHARD WALLACE artist's blind stamp "CH. MARVILLE, PHOTOGRAPHE DU MUSÉE IMPÉRIAL DU LOUVRE" on mount vintage albumen print mounted on paper 57/8 x 913/16 in. (15 x 25 cm) circa 1860 ESTIMATE: $8,000-12,000 PROVENANCE Harry Lunn, NEW YORK & PARIS, Private Collection, FRANCE This view into the garden of the Château de Bagatelle, located in the Bois de Boulogne, depicts its proprietor, The 4th Marquis de Hereford, with his mistress, Madame Oger and his adopted son, Richard Wallace. Through this image Marville gives the viewer a glimpse into Parisian cosmopolitan society, where these great admirers of art and salons gathered during the Second Empire. At that time the Château de Bagatelle housed one of the most beautiful collections of eighteenth-century French furniture, which Richard Wallace inherited and can be admired today in London at The Wallace Collection.