Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of Émile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890), French authors who wrote in partnership under the joint name Erckmann-Chatrian.
Salon de 1876. Prix du Salon. 1re Médaille. Sylvestre. Locuste Essaye, en Présence de Néron, le Poison Préparé pour Britannicus. Photographer: Michelez, C.
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.
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, ...
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.
Mac-Mahon. Né à Sully (Saône-et-Loire), le 13 Juin 1808. Photographer: Goupil et Cie
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Genre: Portrait Photography Photographic copy of an equestrian portrait of the French soldier and statesman Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de Macmahon (1808-1893).