PASTEUR, LOUIS. "MR. PASTEUR DANS SON LABORATOIRE" SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY PASTEUR, CA 1885

Albumen cabinet card by Adolphe Braun (164 x 108 mm), bearing the printed caption: "A. Edelfelt | Mr. Pasteur dans son Laboratoire | No. 2767 | Ad. Braun et Cie." Verso printed: "Le même sujet en grand et moyen format. Tir au charbon, procédé inaltérable. 15 et 6 francs." Some minor adhesive residue to verso.  

INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "A monsieur la député Siegfried ... tres sympathique souvenir, L. Pasteur." Pasteur is shown here in his laboratory in the rue d'Ulm, in the midst of his experimental apparatus. He is holding a jar containing the spinal cord of a rabbit infected with rabies which he used to develop a vaccine against rabies. This photograph served as the basis for Albert Edelfelt's 1885 oil painting of Pasteur, which is held at the Musée d'Orsay.