$75.00 CAD
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Late 19th century French 'Diablerie' stereoscopic photo, #45 Tribunal de Satan. With characters sculpted out of clay, this card portrays a vignette of daily life in Hell, in this case Satan's court.
Originally the photographs were reverse colored by hand, then backed with a layer of tissue paper and sandwiched between two double window cardboard mattes. Latter versions were two photos, viewed using a stereoscopic viewer.
English publisher.
On borders ‘NEW H SERIES’ and ‘Diablerie, Operas, Etc.’
Paper chips, with missing UR corner
8,50 x 17,50 cm
Les Diableries is the title of a series of stereoscopic photographs published in Paris during the 1860s. The photographs, commonly known as stereoviews, portray sculpted clay vignettes which depict scenes of daily life in Hell. Much of the subject matter was satirical and mirrored the corruption and excess of Paris during the Second Empire. Napoleon III's authoritarian rule was repeatedly the subject of criticism, as was the decadent lifestyle of the bourgeoisie.
Later versions had two photos on a card, viewed in 3-D using a stereoscopic viewer.
