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[Hotel de ville, Paris, France] – Antique Wall Art

[Hotel de ville, Paris, France], [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print
[Hotel de ville, Paris, France], [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].. Historic print from the Taverns & Saloons collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Hotel de ville, Paris, France], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Hôtel de Ville stands on the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville on the Right Bank, serving as the seat of Paris's city government. The building that appears here is the rebuilt version: fire destroyed the earlier structure during the Paris Commune in 1871, and it was reconstructed between about 1873 and 1882 in a French Renaissance style. This print uses the photochrom process, a color method that combined photographs with multiple lithographic stones, and the Detroit Publishing Company sold such prints in the United States around 1900. Its soft, saturated tones show how the company marketed European cityscapes to American travelers and armchair tourists.

Created / published[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Genreand other sites in France in the Photochrom print collection."
SubjectsTitle from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. 6932". Forms part of: Views of architecture
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,121 × 4,088 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-223922

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