Paper negative, 10-1/2 x 13-5/8 in. (267 x 346 mm), 1850c/1850c, unmounted. #7045. A wonderful waxed paper negative. This image is likely to be by Regnault, who is known to have done a number of similar studies of the entrance to Sevres, although it came from Robert's descendants. Provenance: Louis Robert; descendants; Christie's London. See: Jammes and Janis, The Art of French Calotype, pl.XXXV for a nearly identical image taken from the same vantage point and attributed by Jammes to Regnault.
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Izaak, while you may indeed be correct, the larger size also was used by Regnault. It has become a bit difficult to distinguish some images between the two. Even those in the Robert estate are thought to be possibly by Regnault. I am familiar with all your sources cited and many more.
Most probably the picture was made by Robert. "Lous Robert and Victor Regnault both made large numbers of photographs on the grounds of the factory, depicting some of the same structures" See Laurie Dahlberg, Victor Regnault and the advance of photography, page 50. Some of the pictures made by Robert are held in the municipal archives of the city of Sevres. Regnault collaborated with the Scottish photographer John Stewart, the brother in law of the astronomer John Herschel. John Stewart made many pictures in the Pyrenees where he stayed with his family. Stewart invited Regnault to visit England and they made pictures together in Hakhurst, Kent. See also: Regards sur la photographie en France au XIXe siècle 1980 and French Primitive Photography 1969.
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Izaak, while you may indeed be correct, the larger size also was used by Regnault. It has become a bit difficult to distinguish some images between the two. Even those in the Robert estate are thought to be possibly by Regnault. I am familiar with all your sources cited and many more.