Leclère is holding a dedicated photograph sale at Drouot on November 10. Among the sale highlights is a group of five 1880s silver gelatin prints of watercolours of Fontaines fables by the French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau.
The watercolours were part of a larger commission from various French artists between 1879-86 by Antoni Roux, a wealthy art lover from Marseilles. These photographic reproductions of Moreau’s paintings, which are attributed to the artist and have been embellished with drypoint, ink, charcoal and white gouache, were taken for an edition of engravings by the Paris firm of Goupil.