Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait, looking off to the left, of the French writer Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), best known for his sketches of Provençal life.
L. Gambetta. Né à Cahors, le 30 octobre 1838. Photographer: Carjat, Etienne
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait (oval image), in half-profile looking off to left, of the French statesman Léon Michel Gambetta (1838-1882), one of the proclaimers of the Republic in 1870 after the surrender of Napoleon III.
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of Frédérick Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître (1800-1876), a popular French actor much admired by Queen Victoria. Lemaître died on 26 January 1876, so this portrait probably dates from 1875 or earlier.
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, in right half-profile, of the French novelist and critic Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (1840-1913).
Half-length portrait, in half-profile looking to the right with arms folded, of the French composer Jacques François Fromenthal Élie Halévy (1799-1862).