Photography · Architecture & places · Catalog HV6FSUHT

Fountain of Notre-Dame at Saint-Brieuc, Brittany

Louis-Rémy Robert (French, 1811–1882) · c. 1853

In the early 1850s, Robert made a series of photographs that would be copied in lithography by Emile van Marcke, an accomplished artist who worked at the Sèvres factory with Robert at this time. Robert’s photographic journey captured seven sites—all featuring medieval architecture—in a small section along the northern coast of Brittany. For this picturesque view, he included the entire building, a small 15th-century Gothic pavilion erected over the fountain of Notre-Dame of S