Architectural ornamentation of the Opéra de Paris as she was in the 1870s. “Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris”. Drawn and engraved after its architect Charles Garnier. Published in Paris by Ducher & Cie in 1878.

Grand fronton de la scene detail d’un des Angles. Détail de la façade principale. Page 77 of Le nouvel Opéra de Paris . 1878. French. Drawn and engraved by various artists after Charles Garnier. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010856207/page/n76/mode/1up

Détail de la façade laterale. Page 78 of Le nouvel Opéra de Paris . 1878, French. Drawn and engraved by various artists after Charles Garnier. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010856207/page/n78/mode/1up

Clefs des arcades – entrée du public (Voitures): Détail de la façade laterales. Page 80 of Le nouvel Opéra de Paris . 1878. French. Drawn and engraved by various artists after Charles Garnier. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010856207/page/n78/mode/1up

Pavillon du chef de l’etat ; Couverture de la salle – Lanterne du dome: Détail de la façade laterales. Page 82 of Le nouvel Opéra de Paris . 1878, French. Drawn and engraved by various artists after Charles Garnier. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010856207/page/n82/mode/1up

Détails Divers Extérieurs. Page 82 of Le nouvel Opéra de Paris . 1878, French. Drawn and engraved by various artists after Charles Garnier.Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010856207/page/n82/mode/1up

Détails Divers Extérieurs. Page 86 of Le nouvel Opéra de Paris . 1878. French. Drawn and engraved by various artists after Charles Garnier. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010856207/page/n86/mode/1up

Clôture de la cour – façade postérieure. Page 92 of Le nouvel Opéra de Paris . 1878. French. Drawn and engraved by various artists after Charles Garnier. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010856207/page/n92/mode/1up

Please note that many of the captions are very faded out and not legible in the scanned images this post is made from.

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