RARE LIMA PERU STREET SCENE 1867 CDV PHOTO FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHERS COURRET & NADAR

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RARE LIMA PERU STREET SCENE 1867 CDV PHOTO FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHERS COURRET & NADAR:
$28.66

CARTE DE VISITE (CDV) OF A STREET SCENE IN LIMA, PERU. We can see two rows of establishments, and a crowd is gathered down the street.
On back, in period ink: “Street in Lima Calle ‘Merca…” Also on the back, also in period ink: “Lima May” followed by “1867” in a different ink.
BACKMARK. “COURRET HERMANOS. SUCCESORES DE MAUNOURY. Corresponsal de la Casa. Nadar. DE PARIS. LIMA.”
SIZE. Approximately 2 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches.
CONDITION. Photo: Some foxing. A few other small spots and marks. Some soiling in sky. Mount: Wear at corners. Soiling, front and back.
APPEARANCE. Good tones. Nice light and details to the building at left, closest to us. Lots of action. Great street scene.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS:
\"Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820 – 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist (or, more accurately, proponent of manned flight). Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs.\" (source: Wikipedia)
Eugenio Courret or Eugène Courret (1841–1900?) was a French photographer who was based in Lima, Peru. He came to Lima in 1860 to work as a cameraman in the photographic studio of Eugene Maunoury. In 1863 founded the \'Photo Central\' studio with his brother Aquiles. In 1887, he founded a studio with Adolphe Dubreuil, and in the 1890s, he returned to France, where he continued his photographic work. The Courret studio went bankrupt in 1935, by which time it housed more than 150,000 negatives. Many of the creditors received these glass negatives as part payment in lieu of the money they were owed. Among those who received such payment was the Rengifo family, who kept 54,000 plaques. In 1987 that family gave the negatives to the National Library of Peru to be protected.\" (source: Wikipedia)