PWT 36 2015

rhinoceros weekly transmission

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Tronc pour les pauvres, N° 3

thursday 10 september 2015 : misery and famine

transmission 36 contents : Incendie de l’Opera, 1763

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The Hospices de Beaune

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An early Rayograph

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L’atelier de Jean-Léon Gérôme A vintage Zoetrope

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vue d’optique. Incendie de l’Opéra au Palais-Royal, 6 avril 1763 (reversed) Vue d’optique, 310x460 mm, pleasant vintage colouring. “The Théâtre du Palais-Royalon the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on 14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets' tragicomedy Mirame. The theatre was used by the troupe of Molière from 1660 to 1673 and as an opera house by the Académie Royale de Musique from 1673 to 1763, when it was destroyed by fire”...

“C’est une salle du Palais-Royal qui, jusqu’en 1763, faisait office d’Opéra. On y jouait les œuvres de Quinault, de Rameau, ou encore Le Devin du village de Rousseau. Cette salle fut complètement détruite par un premier incendie, le 6 août 1763. Aussi les acteurs de l'Opéra furent-ils déplacés dans la salle des Machines de Servandoni, dans le château des Tuileries, y donnant leur première représentation le 24 janvier 1764.” € 150

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attr. à ferrier, Panorama de Lyon, quartier St-Jean, 1856 Salt paper stereo prints, 435x320 mm, captioned : “71. Panorama de Lyon, église St Jean”.

(2) € 200

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raoul martin, tronc pour les pauvres de l’hotel-dieu, beaune, 1890 Albumen silver print, 165x230 mm, on mount, stamped . Raoul Martin was a member of the Société d’histoire, d’archéologie et de littérature de Beaune, he presented a print to his society in 1890. € 200

The Hospices de Beaune

“The Hospices de Beaune or Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune is a former charitable almshouse in Beaune, France. The Hôtel-Dieu was founded on 4 August 1443, when Burgundy was ruled

by Duke Philip the Good. The Hundred Years' War had recently been brought to a close by the signing of the Treaty of Arras in 1435. Massacres, however, continued with marauding bands (écorcheurs) still roaming the countryside, pillaging and destroying, provoking misery and famine. The majority of the people of Beaune were declared destitute. Nicolas Rolin, the Duke's Chancellor, and his wife Guigone de Salins, responded by building a hospital and refuge for the poor. The majority of the population of Beaune were destitute, and the area had recently suffered an outbreak of plague.

The Hospices de Beaune received the first patient on 1 January 1452. Elderly, disabled and sick people, with orphans, women about to give birth and the destitute have all been uninterruptedly welcomed for treatment and refuge from the Middle Ages until today.

Over the centuries, the hospital radiated outwards, grouping with similar establishments in the surrounding villages of Pommard, Nolay, Meursault. Many donations - farms, property, woods, works of art and of course vineyards - were made to it, by grateful families and generous benefactors. The institution is one of the best and oldest examples of historical, philanthropic, and wine-producing heritage, and has become linked with the economic and cultural life of Burgundy.

The charity auction been arranged annually since 1851, taking place on the third Sunday in November amid a three-day festival devoted to the food and wines of Burgundy called Les Trois Glorieuses.[7] The charity is preceded by a black tie dinner at the Clos de Vougeot on day one and followed by the lunch La Paulée de Meursault on day three.[8] The Domaine des Hospices de Beaune is a non-profit organisation which owns around 61 hectares (150 acres) of donated vineyard land, much of this classified Grand and Premier cru.[9] With bidding by professional and private buyers, the barrels, from 31 cuvées of red wine and 13 of white wine, attain prices usually well in excess of the current commercial values, although the results give some indication of the trend in expected bulk wine prices for the vintage from the rest of the region.

The auction has been organised by Christie's since 2005, setting a record total figure at the 149th auction in 2009 when 799 barrels were up for sale, and 40% bids by telephone, internet or fax connecting some 500 participants from around the world, the auction has in recent years evolved from a wholesale market to a retail market.” (Wikipedia)

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early processes, early rayograph from a stainclass, chartres, 1890s Vintage citrate print, 435x320 mm, captioned : “Une feuille de papier au citrate etait appliquee directement sur le vitrail et calée avec du coton pour chasser l'adhérence après fixage le négatif ainsi obtenu était paraffiné et avec le négatif ainsi traitée il était possible d'obtenir des positif dont ci-dessus spécimens. Vitrail de la cathédrale de Chartres contacte directe "A citrate paper sheet was applied directly on the window and wedged with cotton to remove the adhesion after fixing thus obtained was negative and waxed with the negative thus treated it was possible to obtain positive specimens of which above. Stained glass of Chartres cathedral direct contact »”. € 300

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oly Jean-léon Gérôme in his studio, paris, 1890s Vintage silver print, 435x320 mm, captioned : “Leon del.” ( Könidruck).

€ 300

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oly Jean-léon Gérôme entouré de ses élèves, paris, 1890s Vintage silver print, 435x320 mm, captioned : “mmmmm” .

€ 300

élèves de Gérôme (detail)

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burchard. e, verlag c. burchardt´s, nachfolger weisenburg, elsass, 1890s Seven (7) printed sheets with explaination page, 435x320 mm, handcolored, captioned.

“A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings showing progressive phases of that motion. The name zoetrope was composed from the Greek root words ζωή zoe, "life" and τρόπος tropos, "turning". The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion. From the late 19th century, devices working on similar principles have been developed, named analogously as linear zoetropes and 3D zoetropes, with traditional zoetropes referred to as "cylindrical zoetropes" if distinction is needed” (7) € 200

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