Lot 826
Mother St. Croix, nee Marie Fouraut (French/New Orleans, 1854-1940), three photographs of the Second Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, "View Taken From the Tower", "Workmen's Quarters", and "Chaplain's Residence: Aumonerie due Convent des Ursulines Nile. Orleans Lne", c. 1888-1912, albumen prints affixed to board, 7.25in. x 8.75in., unframed. E1000/1500 Note: At the age of nineteen years old, Marie Fouraut entered the Ursuline Convent in Beaujeu, France. She adopted the name Marie de la St. Croix and soon moved to the Ursuline Community in New Orleans. She became keenly interested in photography and at the turn of the century documented the buildings and activities of the Second Ursuline Convent located in the French Quarter. For the 1904 Louisiana Purchase World's Fair in St. Louis, Mother St. Croix shot a photographic series of the Convent. Those exhibited photographs are now in the collection of the Louisiana State Museum. The glass plate negative for "Chaplain's Residence: Aumonerie due Convent des Ursulines Nile. Orleans Lne" is in the Ursuline Convent collection. Ref: Freeman, Tina, The Photographs of Mother St. Croix, exhibition catalogue, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1982.
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