Sculpture of Virgin and Child, Notre Dame, Paris, Auguste Mestral, ca. 1851

---

Sculpture of Virgin and Child, Notre Dame, Paris, ca. 1851, Salted paper print from paper negative, x cm (13 13/16 x 10 7/8 in. ), Photographs, Auguste Mestral (French, Rans 1812–1884 Rans), The mid-nineteenth-century's renewed interest in France's medieval past resulted in the restoration-sometimes heavy handed, sometimes imaginative-of many of the nation's most important monuments. The work on Notre Dame, which suffered deliberate damage during the Revolution and neglect in the years that followed, began in 1845 and lasted some twenty-five years

---

Size: 3828px × 4861px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 10, 13, 13/16, 1812–1884, , , 1845, 1851, 7/8, auguste, ca, child, cm, damage, dame, deliberate, france, french, handed, heavy, imaginative, important, interest, lasted, medieval, mestral, mid-nineteenth-century, monuments, nation, negative, neglect, notre, paper, paris, photographs, print, rans, renewed, restoration-, resulted, revolution, salted, sculpture, suffered, twenty-, virgin, work, years