c. 1880–1900Paris
Palais Garnier
Period photograph of the completed opera. Photographer and exact year are not fixed on this scan.
Street photograph
c. 1880–1900·Paris
Palais Garnier
Period photograph of the completed opera. Photographer and exact year are not fixed on this scan.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The principal façade photographed from the square: columns, sculpture, the gilded groups on the attic, a street of carriages. A camera on a finished monumental opera. Present status: surviving. Set it beside the Avenue de l’Opéra plate if you want the building tested against the street that was cut to face it.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Palais Garnier (Opéra Garnier)
- Region
- Europe
- Documented completion
- 1875
- Architect
- Charles Garnier
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands at Place de l’Opéra. Exact photographer of this scan is uncertain.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of a late-nineteenth-century photograph of Palais Garnier.
- License
- Public domain (nineteenth-century photograph).
Collections where this plate appears
- 02Old World photographyStreet scenes, demolition, construction, rooftops, a dome, a completed boulevard. The camera on the ground or on a known high point — not a lithograph pretending to be a lens.
- 05Monumental architecturePeriod photographs of named structures. Documented identification first. Present status is a later fact recorded beside the plate — surviving, altered, burned, demolished, reconstructed, replaced — not a verdict the image is asked to prove.