PHOTOGRAPHS
Laurent, Juan
France (1816 - 1892)
Madrid-329-El teatro real (Madrid - The Royal Theatre)
c. 1870s
Albumen print
10 x 13 3/8 in. (25.4 x 34 cm) image size;12 x 17 3/16 in. (30.5 x 43.6 cm) mount sheet size
Monsen Study Collection of Photography, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen
FA 85.94

The Royal Theatre in Madrid was completed in 1850 and was considered to be one of Europe’s greatest opera houses. The theatre was a major center of Madrid’s cultural scene in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

-- Label copy for Juan Laurent, Photographer of Spain, July 7 to September 23, 2007.