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De Clercq, Louis
(1837–1901)Baalbeck

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Baalbeck. (Héliopolis) Grandes assises du temple du Soleil. 1859. Albumen print from a paper negative, mounted to card. 28 x 21,4 cm (mount 59,5 x 45,5 cm). Printed title and caption "Grandes assises du temple du Soleil."; numbered "36" at lower right.

Plate 36 from de Clercq’s Voyage en Orient. Villes, monuments, et vues pittoresques de Syrie, made during the 1859 archaeological expedition in Syria and Asia Minor led by Emmanuel-Guillaume Rey. Rather than presenting Baalbek as a panoramic ruin, de Clercq brings the camera close to its colossal foundation courses, making the ancient masonry’s scale, sequence and weathered surface the subject of the photograph. The unusually restrained composition is characteristic of his work: a precise archaeological record that also gives monumental architecture a striking formal presence.


Literatur: Rolf Mayer, ed. Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (exhibition catalog). Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989, ill. p. 90, fig. 36.