pwt 36 2015

transmission 36 contents :

Incendie de l’Opera, 1763 1

The Hospices de Beaune 3

An early Rayograph 4

L’atelier de Jean-Léon Gérôme 5-6

A vintage Zoetrope 7

rhinoceros weekly transmission rwt-36

thursday 10 september 2015 : misery and famine

Tronc pour les pauvres, N° 3

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RWTransmission 36 1 36th week 2015

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 therue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets' tragicomedy Mirame. The theatrewas used by the troupe of Molière from 1660 to 1673 and as an opera house by the AcadémieRoyale 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 œu-vres de Quinault, de Rameau, ou encore Le Devin du village de Rousseau. Cette salle fut com-plètement détruite par un premier incendie, le 6 août 1763. Aussi les acteurs de l'Opérafurent-ils déplacés dans la salle des Machines de Servandoni, dans le château des Tuileries, ydonnant leur première représentation le 24 janvier 1764.” € 150


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


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 theSociété d’histoire, d’archéologie et de littérature de Beaune, he presented a print to his societyin 1890. € 200

The Hospices de Beaune

“The Hospices de Beaune or Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune is a former charitable almshouse inBeaune, France. The Hôtel-Dieu was founded on 4 August 1443, when Burgundy was ruledby Duke Philip the Good. The Hundred Years' War had recently been brought to a close bythe signing of the Treaty of Arras in 1435. Massacres, however, continued with maraudingbands (écorcheurs) still roaming the countryside, pillaging and destroying, provoking miseryand famine. The majority of the people of Beaune were declared destitute. Nicolas Rolin, theDuke's Chancellor, and his wife Guigone de Salins, responded by building a hospital andrefuge for the poor. The majority of the population of Beaune were destitute, and the areahad recently suffered an outbreak of plague.

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

Over the centuries, the hospital radiated outwards, grouping with similar establishments inthe 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 gen-erous benefactors. The institution is one of the best and oldest examples of historical, philan-thropic, and wine-producing heritage, and has become linked with the economic and culturallife of Burgundy.

The charity auction been arranged annually since 1851, taking place on the third Sunday inNovember amid a three-day festival devoted to the food and wines of Burgundy called LesTrois Glorieuses.[7] The charity is preceded by a black tie dinner at the Clos de Vougeot onday one and followed by the lunch La Paulée de Meursault on day three.[8] The Domaine desHospices 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 byprofessional 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 givesome indication of the trend in expected bulk wine prices for the vintage from the rest of theregion.

The auction has been organised by Christie's since 2005, setting a record total figure at the149th auction in 2009 when 799 barrels were up for sale, and 40% bids by telephone, internetor fax connecting some 500 participants from around the world, the auction has in recentyears evolved from a wholesale market to a retail market.” (Wikipedia)


early processes, early rayograph from a stainclass, chartres, 1890s

Vintage citrate print, 435x320 mm, captioned : “Une feuille de papier au citrate etait ap-pliquee directement sur le vitrail et calée avec du coton pour chasser l'adhérence après fixagele négatif ainsi obtenu était paraffiné et avec le négatif ainsi traitée il était possible d'obtenirdes 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 removethe adhesion after fixing thus obtained was negative and waxed with the negative thus treatedit was possible to obtain positive specimens of which above. Stained glass of Chartres cathedraldirect contact »”. € 300


olyJean-léon Gérôme in his studio, paris, 1890s

Vintage silver print, 435x320 mm, captioned : “Leon del.” ( Könidruck). € 300


olyJean-léon Gérôme entouré de ses élèves, paris, 1890s

Vintage silver print, 435x320 mm, captioned : “mmmmm” . € 300

élèves de Gérôme (detail)


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 motionby displaying a sequence of drawings showing progressive phases of that motion. The namezoetrope 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 innersurface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinderspins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps thepictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, pro-ducing the illusion of motion. From the late 19th century, devices working on similar principleshave been developed, named analogously as linear zoetropes and 3D zoetropes, with tradi-tional zoetropes referred to as "cylindrical zoetropes" if distinction is needed” (7) € 200

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