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€ 600 - 800
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€ 350
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At auction on Wednesday 18 June 2025 at 16:00
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Albumen print, handcoloured
cm 42,5 x 55,5 | 16.7 x 21.9 in.
Unique work
Carlo Naya (Tronzano Vercellese, Vercelli 1816 - Venice 1882) heir to a rich landowner after graduating in law, as an art lover he made a grand tour of Europe, Asia, Egypt. He discovered photography in Paris and opened a studio in Constantinople, but in 1857 he was in Venice where he worked in Carlo Ponti's atelier, then in his own ateliers in St. Mark's Square and Campo San Maurizio and in the store at the Procuratie, which achieved great commercial success and appreciations for the technical and aesthetic quality of his works. A famous “forgery” trial he won against some colleagues who sold his photographs as their own gave birth to copyright law.
Two elements characterize Carlo Naya's style: the culture that came to him from a passion for art refined by direct vision of the works of antiquity including that Scrovegni Chapel in Padua that he would magnificently reproduce; the technical skill acquired already in the days of the daguerreotype that enabled him to establish himself quickly internationally for his highly accurate Venetian views. While other photographers often restricted themselves to a precise view, Naya was noted for choosing to make large prints called extragrand or impérial and for the skill with which he intervened by coloring them, as is very evident in the photograph of the Bridge of Sighs. Even more interesting and spectacular is the shot of St. Mark's Square with the Procuratie and Doge's Palace acting as backdrops. Here he is at his best in his specialty of the so-called “moonlight” print obtained by mounting in register two negatives - one of the daytimes shot and one of the sky from which the sun peeks out - and then printing on colored papers to achieve a night-time effect.
cm 42,5 x 55,5 | 16.7 x 21.9 in.
Unique work
Carlo Naya (Tronzano Vercellese, Vercelli 1816 - Venice 1882) heir to a rich landowner after graduating in law, as an art lover he made a grand tour of Europe, Asia, Egypt. He discovered photography in Paris and opened a studio in Constantinople, but in 1857 he was in Venice where he worked in Carlo Ponti's atelier, then in his own ateliers in St. Mark's Square and Campo San Maurizio and in the store at the Procuratie, which achieved great commercial success and appreciations for the technical and aesthetic quality of his works. A famous “forgery” trial he won against some colleagues who sold his photographs as their own gave birth to copyright law.
Two elements characterize Carlo Naya's style: the culture that came to him from a passion for art refined by direct vision of the works of antiquity including that Scrovegni Chapel in Padua that he would magnificently reproduce; the technical skill acquired already in the days of the daguerreotype that enabled him to establish himself quickly internationally for his highly accurate Venetian views. While other photographers often restricted themselves to a precise view, Naya was noted for choosing to make large prints called extragrand or impérial and for the skill with which he intervened by coloring them, as is very evident in the photograph of the Bridge of Sighs. Even more interesting and spectacular is the shot of St. Mark's Square with the Procuratie and Doge's Palace acting as backdrops. Here he is at his best in his specialty of the so-called “moonlight” print obtained by mounting in register two negatives - one of the daytimes shot and one of the sky from which the sun peeks out - and then printing on colored papers to achieve a night-time effect.
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