Photographs. Collection of carte-de-visite photographs by Disdéri and others, including of Verdi and Gounod, 1860s

PHOTOGRAPHS.

Collection of 15 early carte-de-visite photographs of Verdi, Wagner, Rossini, including five signed by Gounod, Bottesini and others, 1860-1870s

including Verdi (2: c.1860), Rossini (2: 1862), Wagner (1861), Gounod (2, c.1860 and one inscribed: "à mon cher ami Bachelier, Ch. Gounod"), Auber, Bottesini (signed), Thomas (signed and inscribed "à mon élève Massenet"), Offenbach, Anton Rubinstein (signed) and Benjamin Godard (signed and inscribed)

15 items, (c.9 x 6cm) mainly sepia prints on paper, by Disdéri ("8 Boulevart des Italiens"), Carjat ("56 rue Lafitte"), Pougnet, Mulnier, Reutlinger, Demaisons of Paris, with H.N. King (Bath) and Angerer (Vienna), loosely held in gilt-edged photograph windows, nineteenth-century brown morocco album by Roberts of Boston, mainly Paris, 1860s-1870s

This is a fine collection of early carte-de-visite photographs from famous early ateliers in Paris. The portrait of Verdi is often dated to 1855, and must be no later than 1862, when a version was included in Disdéri's Galerie des contemporains (vol. 2, no. 7 of 25 pictures), published that year. André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889) is usually credited with being the inventor of the Carte-de-visite format

LITERATURE:

Wagner: G. Braam, Richard Wagner in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie (2015), no.8 (1861); Verdi: V&A collection numbers S.138:11-2007 & S.138:14-2007 (1862).

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