Louis-Emile Durandelle

From 1854 to 1862 he worked with Hyacinthe César Delmaet and Dalmaet's wife Clémence Jacob as the company Delmaet & Durandelle.[4][5] The trio lived and worked from 30-32 Chaussé de Cligancourt in Paris.[5] After the death of Delmaet in 1862, Durandelle married Dalmaet's widow, who kept the name Clémence Jacob Dalmaet.[6][5][7]

By 1868 the company was operating from 4 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre.[8] Following Delmaet's death, Durandelle documented the construction of the Hotel-Dieu de Paris, Sacre Cour, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the theater at Monte Carlo and the 1882-1884 excavations under the Louvre Museum.[9] In 1871 Between 1870 and 1871 he photographed the Paris Commune, the insurrection against the government of Napoleon III.[4]

Durandelle published a portfolio in 1876, in collaboration with Charles Garnier, titled Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale, documenting the Paris Opéra's sculptural decoration.[4][10] He photographed the construction of the Eiffel Tower from 1887 until 1889.[4][11]

After the death of his wife in 1890, Dandurelle sold the photography business, along with its negatives, to his assistant and stopped taking photographs.[5][9]

• Art Institute of Chicago[12]
• Canadian Centre for Architecture[13]
• Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris[14][15]
• Getty Museum[4]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art[16]
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts[17]
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art[18]
• Musée d'Orsay, Paris[11]
• Museum of Modern Art, New York[19]
• National Gallery of Art, Washington[6]
• National Gallery of Canada[20]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[21]

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  Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
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  Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
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  Construction of the Paris Opera, 1864
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  Construction of the Paris Opera, May 1864
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  Great staircase of the Paris Opera, 1865
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  Circular vestibule of the Palais Garnier, 1864.
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  Paris Opera arch detail.
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  Workers on Girders of Auditorium, New Paris Opera.