Dealer Records:
Photographs of fine and decorative arts from the Jacques Seligmann & Fils (Paris) and Seligmann & Co. Inc. (New York) galleries
Title
Photographs of
fine and decorative arts from the Jacques Seligmann & Fils (Paris) and
Seligmann & Co. Inc. (New York) galleries
Record
Photographs of
fine and decorative arts
Photo Study Collection (17 boxes). Call Number:
89.P.7
Description
Jacques
Seligmann & Fils, Paris was established by Jacques Seligmann (1858-1923) at
the turn of the nineteenth century. In 1912 he founded in New York Seligmann
& Co. Inc. The two firms were reunitied after World War II. The record
comprises a photographic archive of some 2,400 photographic prints and 1,100
negatives, arranged by stock number. Stock sheets, authentication letters and
other documents accompany the relevant prints. The images of fine and decorative
art from both the New York and Paris galleries include tapestries (c. 200
Gobelins, Beauvais and Aubusson) and porcelain, mostly from Sèvres or Meissen.
Location of
Record
The Getty Research Institute
for the History
of Art and the Humanities
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200
Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Tel.: +1 310
440-7390
Fax: +1 310 440-7780
Email: reference@getty.edu
Source
Getty Research
Library Catalogue Online
<http://www.getty.edu/cgi-bin>,
accessed 9 January 2003.
