Place Vendôme - Place Louis-le-Grand Circa 1880s

Artist: Unknown
Title: Place Vendôme - Place Louis-le-Grand
Medium: Albumen Photographic Print - Circa 1880s
Condition: This print is in a good condition, there is a slight crease at the top edge of the print. It has recently been framed with an acid free mat, the frame is natural oak. It is glazed with anti-reflective invisible glass "ArtGlass AR70" which has UV block of 70% Visible light transmission of 99% and a reflection of 1%.

About: Place Louis-le-Grand later known as Place Vendôme was built in 1702 by Louis XIV is one of the Paris’s most famous and beautiful neoclassical squares. Situated in the 1st Arrondissement, the original Vendôme column at the centre of the square was erected by Napoleon I to commemorate the Battle of Austerlitz. Only to be later torn down on 16 May 1871, by decree of the Paris Commune, but subsequently it was re-erected and remains the prominent feature on the square today.