Alphonse Karr. Photographer: Adam-Salomon, Antoine Samuel
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing left profile portrait of the French novelist and critic Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890), photographed from the side and slightly behind the subject..
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the French writer and critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), wearing a velvet cap and standing beside a desk.
Half-length portrait, in half-profile looking to the right with arms folded, of the French composer Jacques François Fromenthal Élie Halévy (1799-1862).
E. de Girardin. Né en Suisse le 22 juin 1806. Photographer: Goupil et Cie
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders vignetted portrait of the French writer, journalist, newspaper owner and polemicist Émile de Girardin (1802-1881). Girardin was apparently born in Paris in 1802, not in Switzerland in 1806 as stated here.
Georges Sand. Née à Paris, le 5 juillet 1804, morte à Nohant, le 8 juin 1876. Photographer: Nadar
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait, looking to the right, of the French novelist George Sand (1804-1876), pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baronne Dudevant. This portrait is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue by Maria Morris Hambourg et al., 'Nadar' (New York, ...
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait, looking slightly off to the right, of the French surgeon Alfred Louis Armand Marie Velpeau (1795-1867).
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders portrait, looking off to the right, of the French diplomat and politician Louis Decazes, Duc de Glucksberg (1819-1886).