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Achille Lemoine, L’Offrande à Jupiter, 1904, France

From “L’Épreuve Photographique: Première Série: 1904” with interleaving tissue with printed credit, title and plate number. Between 1904-1905, one of the most luxurious subscription photographic plate publications in France or Europe was L’Épreuve Photographique. (The Photographic Print) Published in Paris, and not satisfied with identifying itself as a mere photographic journal, it billed itself as a “monthly portfolio of luxury” instead. (Portfolio périodique de grand luxe) Over the course of two years, prize-winning salon photographs from French and European pictorialist circles were selected for inclusion in this oversized publication (44 x 32 cm) as hand-pulled, copper plate (taille-douce) screen photogravures (héliogravures) from the Paris atelier of Charles Wittmann.