Photographic credits

Blanc, Adèle: about 1857, Adèle Blanc and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.Adèle

Private collection: Gérard d'Ortho / Loïc Métrope

Blanc, Zénaïde: The Vincent Cavaillé family / Zénaïde Blanc / Berthe Cavaillé, about 1858

Blanc, Hippolyte: three portraits, Cécile, Emmanuel, Gabriel and Joseph Cavaillé-Coll: 1871

Cavaillé-Coll, Berthe: three portraits; Cavaillé-Coll, Aristide: "Ses Oeuvres" (his works) - Portrait by A. Dallemagne

Reinburg, Emile (priest): Felix, Gabriel. Simony (de) Alphonse: two portraits and his daughter, Marie

Vincent Cavaillé-Coll family - Adèle Blanc - Zenaïde Blanc - Berthe Cavaillé, about 1858

(The above photographs are all from the private collection of Gérard d'Ortho / Loïc Métrope)

Cavallé-Coll, Vincent: about 1860. Photo, A. Dallemagne (Cavaillé with two pipes) Ministère de la Culture - Photography Department -no 170

Place, Henri "Artist": Property at Varengeville sur Mer (private collection): "Falaises d' Etretat" by Henri Place (Musée de Dieppe)

Place, Henri "a unique man and a banker": Letterhead of the Société de Banque Ch. Noël, H. Place & Cie. (AN/ET/XXII/397). Portrait Isaure Le Blanc/ wife of Henri Place (drawing by Dominique Ingres, 1834, Musée Bonat, Bayonne)

Company financial history: Engraving, Manufacture Cavaillé-Coll, avenue du Maine, Paris, 1867 (private collection: Gérard d'Ortho / Loïc Métrope)

April 5 1841 Agreement AN/MIN/LXIV/170

Manufacture A. Cavaillé-Coll letterhead: Orgue de St. Roch Archives, Paris. (Archdiocese of Paris)

"A.Cavaillé-Coll & Cie, société en commandité": Thomas Brunton (private collection); Antoine, Jean Rédier (Astié private collection)

"A. Cavaillé-Coll Père & Fils" Sté en nom collectif (letterhead - estimate for the St. Roch organ - Archdiocese of Paris)

His origins - his private life

Cavaillé-Coll "Private Life": Dominique Cavaillé-Coll (Association Cavaillé-Coll / la Flûte Harmonique)

Gaillac Fountain (Editions S A Apa Poux, Albi)

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll at 25, from a painting by Grenier ("Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, ses origines, sa vie, ses œuvres" Fischbacker, Paris, 1929)

Trinité (first church): archives of the Paris Archdiocese (Father Ploix)

Gathering in front of the great organ at Trocadero: Association Boëllmann / Gigout - Thierry Adhumeau

Mutin, Charles: portrait of Charles Mutin and his wife Eugénie Crespin (private collection, François Saint-James)

Rossini

Rossini, portrait, (Réunion des Musées Nationaux)

Poïkilorgue (Michel Dieterlen collection).

…from the Grave

A. Cavaillé-Coll, portrait ("L'Illustration", No. 2956, p. 272, 21/10/1899)

Tomb of Cavaillé-Coll, Montparnasse Cemetery (photo, Francis Favard). Notice of death (Archives de Paris).

Notice of the death of Mr. Aristide Cavaillé-Coll: Archives de la Seine

Cavaillé-Coll burial register, Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris: from "La Manufacture d'Orgues, avenue du Maine", Loïc Métrope. Paris, Aux Amateurs de Livres, Klincksieck, 1988 - 300 pages (out of print).

Initiatory journey

Initiatory journey: horses and carriage (Musée Vaux-le-Vicomte) - Portrait, Eugène Delacroix (RMN)

Map of the French roads, 1833: Musée de la Poste (Paris) -

The Workshops

Rue de Laval: "Omnibus Restaurants" (Photo BN/ Engravings) - Map of the district, Perrot Atlas, 1835

Dosne map, St. George district, Paris: AN/F/31/46/376

Workshops at 42 rue Notre-Dame de Lorette / 66 rue La Rochefoucault: map of the district, Perrot Atlas, 1835

Portrait of the painter, Isabey (BNF, Engravings, N2)

94-96 rue de Vaugirard

plan of the "Salle de Concert Spirituel" ( A.N F/31/32 pièce 367

Plan of the route of the rue de Rennes appended to the Decree of 28 July 1866: City of Paris - Service documentation foncière.

Manufacture d'Orgues Cavaillé-Coll, avenue du Maine: Institution de Barral letterhead (Archives de la Seine): View of the buildings, 1933 (private collection)

Manufacture Cavaillé-Coll, avenue du Maine: plan of ground floor (completed by Loïc Métrope)

The "Patron's" Musicians

Collin Charles, Franck César, Guilmant Alexandre, Lefébure-Wély, Lemmens Jacques, Widor Charles-Marie, Tournaillon Henri, Messerer Henri organists. Private collection

S.E.I.N (Société d'Encouragement à l' Industrie Nationale)

Portraits of members of this society and other academies (Académie des Sciences).

His Works

Organ recitals at Saint Denis

Document acknowledging receipt of the instrument dated 21 September 1841 (Ministère de Culture, Archives Patrimoine).

Drawing of the St. Denis organ case: monograph, A. de La Fage. Paris, Simon Richault, 1846

Barker: portrait from Révolution récente dans la Facture d'Orgues Tallandier, Lille, 1914.

Diagram of a pneumatic lever: Cavaillé-Coll, patent 1859

St. Denis (neogothic organ case): details of sculptures and the organ case (Ministère de Culture, Service Inventaire, 1999). Photo, Philippe Fortin / Elsa Lambert

Trocadero Exhibition, 1878: Organ case (Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, ses origines, sa vie, ses œuvres)

Organ case for proposed organ for St Peter's in Rome (J. Stinkens / Orgelpipenmakers B.V. Zeist, Holland, 1999)

St. Denis "an organ for Mr. Thiers": "Les Artistes Contemporains" by Planta, 1832 (BNF / Musique/N2) - Report given at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, 26/10 /1833 (Bibliothèque, Institut de France)

Thiers, Adolphe: portrait, 1839, Galerie de la Presse (BNF/Engravings/N2) - la Liberté guidant le Peuple, Eugène Delacroix (Réunion des Musées Nationaux)

War of 1870: Cavaillé-Coll Mansion. Three photographs (private collection)

Barker detail drawings: model of a pneumatic lever, drawing, Hamel, 1839, plate 29 - completed by Roland Galtier

Other

Notre-Dame de Paris: organ case, great organ (Ministère de la culture - Service de l'Inventaire, 1999. Photo Philippe Fortin / Elsa Lambert

Caen: organ case. Photo P. Corbierre (service régional de l'Inventaire en Basse-Normandie, 1999. General inventory - ADAGP

Organ case: C. Coll, Bolbec Reformed Church, 1852 (private collection)

Garchizy (Nièvre): parish church and organ case (Photo, Association Amis de Garchizy)

List of organs by Vincent Cavaillé-Coll: Company letterhead (private collection)

Les Rats de L'Abbaye: poem (extracts). Story in verse by Jean Rédier. Paris, Maulde & Rendu, 1840. Details from carved organ case, St. Denis, Ministère de la Culture, Service de l'Inventaire, 1999. Photo, Philippe Fortin / Elsa Lambert.

Reybaud Louis : portrait (Institut de France)

Will by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll: Office of Mr. Gastaldi, lawyer, 28/10/1899