Hippodrome, avenue de l'Alma (actuellement avenue Georges V), ouvert en juin 1877 et détruit en 1895, D.8021(1392)(3), Léon Leymonnerye, En 1877

Author(s): leymonnerye, léon (1803 - 1879), designer other title: paris. Public festivals. Theaters. Balls, concerts &c. Series 14. (title of the set) production date: in 1877 type(s) of object(s): drawing, graphic arts name(s): drawing materials and techniques: pencil place(s) of execution/production: paris dimensions - artwork: height: 8. 3cm width: 11. 8cm dimensions - mounting: height: 36cm width: 23cm description: assembly common to numbers d. 8021(1390) to (1392). Marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: inscription concerning the title - on the front, on the mount, at the bottom center, handwritten in black ink: "hippodrome, avenue de l'alma / opened in june 1877". Signature and date - on the front, on the image, lower left, handwritten in gray ink: "ll 77". Inventory number - on the front, on the mount, bottom right, in black ink: "d8021(1392)". On the front, on the image, bottom right, in black ink: "e. 18048(1392)". Iconographic description: hippodrome, avenue de l'alma (currently avenue georges v), opened in june 1877 and destroyed in 1895. Historical commentary: the donor classified this collection into 19 series: 1) paris, right bank; 2) enclosure barriers removed on january 1, 1860; 3) plans and overviews; 4) bridges and railways; 5) hotels; 6) ile notre-dame - ile st. Louis; 7) paris, left bank; 8) colleges - schools; 9) hospitals - hospices; 10) convents - communities; 11) hotels, ceremonies, churches, miscellaneous; 12) passages, courtyards, cities, villas,. . .;13) churches; 14) public festivals, theaters, balls, concerts, etc.;15) ancient paris following brétez, bullet, dulaure, israel, henriet, callot, gomboust, israel silvestre. . . , pregnant of philippe auguste; 16) town halls; 17) domes; 18) sieges of the prussians 1870-71; 19) fountains, reservoirs. A manuscript of 6 sheets entitled: "alphabetical catalog of sketches from nature taken in paris until 1876", lists in alphabetical order the parisian places drawn by the artist. Acquisition method: manual donation name of donor, testator, seller: dutripon (mr) date of acquisition: 1950 institution: carnavalet museum, history of paris inventory number: d. 8021(1392). Date: En 1877.