Opéra (Rostral Column)
c. 1875
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- 37.7 × 26.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193028
In the 1800s, gas lamps replaced the oil lights. When Napoleon III commissioned a new opera house in Paris in 1860, it was surrounded by a “Ring of Light,” including this column with three gas streetlights. The opera house became the setting for Gaston LeRoux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, which inspired the 1976 musical and 2004 film.
Provenance
Goldfield Trust, 2006.6
Registry history
- c. 1875 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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