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622 - PHOTOS 19th CENTURY / 1860–1875 / PORTRAITS OF THE FRENCH NO…
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PHOTOS 19th CENTURY / 1860–1875 / PORTRAITS OF THE FRENCH NOBILITY & CELEBRITIES - THIRTY-SEVEN (37) photographs on paper, bromide prints mounted on card in visiting-card format (approximately 10.5 x 6.3 cm). FAMOUS FIGURES: Victor Duruy, Minister of Public Instruction; Adolphe Gueroult, a publicist sentenced to death by the Commune; the Marquise de Bloqueville, née Davout d’Eckmült; the Countess of Paris, mother of Philippe d’Orléans; Philippe, Count of Paris (1838–1894); Armand Barbès, Queen Marie Amélie of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Philippe (young standing portrait), Camille Lée, founder of the École Normale Supérieure de Sèvres, Queen of France Marie Amélie in 1861 (seated portrait in an armchair), Duke of Nemours, son of Louis-Philippe and Marie Amélie of Bourbon; Duke of Montpensier, youngest child of Louis-Philippe and Marie Amélie; Princess Clémentine, daughter of Louis-Philippe; Count of Paris, son of the Duke of Orléans (full-length portrait by Furne), Count of Paris in 1872 by Bondonneau, Duke of Chartres, son of Ferdinand, Duke of Orléans, and grandson of Louis Philippe; Duke of Alençon at the age of 15, grandson of Louis Philippe; the two brothers, Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, and Gaston, Count of Eu, at the military school in Segovia; Prince of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe; Baron J. de Rothschild (1792–1869), railway builder; Madame Blerzy, model for the painter Henri Gervex; Louis, Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre (1812–1889);Marie de Blacas d’Aulps, May 1868, in Vendée costume; Henri Blerzy (1830–1904), journalist and Departmental Director of the Post and Telegraph Office for the Aube; Alain de Montpensier (1877); Marquis de Grouchy, grandson of the Marshal (1789–1864), Countess de Malherbe, Count de Malherbe, Marquis de la Roche Jacquelin (1805–1865), Baron de Jessé, Charles de Montesquieu, Duke of Aoust, Baron Girod de l’Ain from the Pays de Gex and founder of the railways, Victor Cousin (1798–1867), philosopher and statesman, Countess de Linche (1865), Granier de Cassagnac 1806–1880, Château de Couloumé, Member of Parliament and founder of *Le Globe*, the Houde du Tremblay family, Countess de la Lande Pichon Longueville. GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS of Paris and the provinces: FRANCK – CH. REUTLINGER – ALOHE – DISDERI – CHARLES of Bordeaux – PIERRE PETIT – AD. BRAUN – DESMAISONS – KEN - LEON BONDONNEAU - FURNE & H. TOURNIER - CLAUDET, London - TRUCHELUT - JOLIOT - CHALOT - DENISSE of Bordeaux - LUCHON PHOTOGRAPHY. Beautiful photographs in SUPERB condition.
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About the sale SALE OF COINS, BANKNOTES, MEDALS, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY HEADGEAR, INSIGNIA AND DECORATIONS – lots 300 to 598 Followed by OLD PAPERS, PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, DOCUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS – Lots 599 to 862
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Auction time 10/20/2026 at 2:00 PM
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