ID: 700008614 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008614	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Exposition universelle de 1889 / État d'avancement (photograph; Louis-Émile Durandelle; in negative: 23 NOVEMBRE 88 [N...; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...;)

Note: The Centennial Exposition of 1889 was organized by the French government to commemorate the French Revolution. Bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel's 984-foot (300-meter) tower of open-lattice wrought iron was selected in a competition to erect a memorial at the exposition. Twice as high as the dome of St. Peter's in Rome or the Great Pyramid of Giza, nothing like it had ever been built before. This view was made about four months short of the tower's completion. Louis-Émile Durandelle photographed the tower from a low vantage point to emphasize its monumentality. The massive building barely visible in the far distance is dwarfed under the tower's arches.

Titles:

Exposition universelle de 1889 / État d'avancement (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U,English-P,L,A)

The Eiffel Tower: State of the Construction (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

photograph [300046300] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: in negative: 23 NOVEMBRE 88 [November 23, 1888]

Creator Display:

Louis-Émile Durandelle [preferred,VP]

photographer Durandelle, Louis-Emile (French photographer, 1839-1917) [500019813]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Paris [7008038] (Geographic)

Repository Numbers: 87.XM.121.16

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: Albumen silver print

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	albumen process [300133274]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

Dimensions: 43.2 x 34.6 cm (17 x 13 5/8 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Eiffel Tower [700000116]
	.....(Eiffel Tower [700000116], Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, urban planning, and engineering works [700009566], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

	Belle Époque [300264407]
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, fin de siècle) (AAT)

Inscriptions: (Recto, print) upper center, in pencil: "Panneau 18" lower right, inscribed on the negative: "23 NOVEMBRE 88, No 49" (Recto, mount) upper left, in red and black pencil: "1544"

Marks: (Recto, mount) upper center, imprinted in black ink: "Exposition Universelle de 1889/Etat d'Avancement/Au 188 /G. Eiffel, Ingenieur et Constructeur".

Related Works:

	depicts .... Eiffel Tower [700000116]
	..........observation towers; Gustave Eiffel; Maurice Koechlin; Emile Nougier; Stephen Sau...; 1887-1889; Paris (Île-de-France, France, Europe, World, Top of the T...;

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Exposition universelle de 1889 / État d'avancement	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
The Eiffel Tower: State of the Construction	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)