About This Image

The photographer's inked stamp on the mount. From "Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 7".

An Egyptian obelisk covered in hieroglyphs at the center of a public square. There are two fountains, one on either side of the obelisk, each with two tiers. Small sculptures line the basin of each fountain and spray water into the fountain.

Created in 1772, Place de la Concorde was originally known for having been an execution site during the French Revolution. Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (among others) were guillotined here. Between 1836 and 1846 the architect Jacques-Ignace Hittorf redesigned the square to become what it is today.

There is a copy of this photograph in the Library of Congress, Harvard's Houghton Library and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Provenance: Lowinsky Gallery, New York; from the Estate of Christopher Cardozo.

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