Palais de Tsarskoé-Sélo, Facade de la Cour d'Honneur, St. Petersburg
Albumen print, c. 1859
10/10; 288 x 320mm, mounted
$3500.
Richebourg was an important early professional photographer who worked with Vincent Chevalier and Daguerre himself. He took daguerreotypes in Rome in 1844. In 1859 he produced a photographic record of this imperial palace, south of St. Petersburg in Russia, and its collection of art and armor. The image shown is one of the finest of the series and is Plate No. I of the rare published work.