Mme. Pauline Viardot. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait, posed in costume and holding a lyre, of the French opera singer (of Spanish origin) Michelle Ferdinande Pauline Viardot (1821-1910).
Cham [Comte Amédée Charles Henry de Noé]. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of the French illustrator and caricaturist Comte Amédée Charles Henry de Noé (1818-1879), better known as Cham.
L'Abbé François Napoléon Marie Moigno. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, standing reading a book, of the French physicist, mathematician, scientific writer and divine, Abbé François Napoléon Marie Moigno (1804-1884).
Général Jusuf [Giuseppe Ventini]. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, standing in left profile reading a document, of the (?)French military officer, Giuseppe Ventini (?1808-1866), known as Jusuf or Yusuf. As the letterpress says of this somewhat shadowy figure, 'Despite their research, biographers have been unabl...