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Disdéri: opera actress with lampion, ca. 1865

Image of Disdéri: opera actress with lampion, ca. 1865

An albumen CdV by Disdéri of an actress with nice hat and posing with a lampion before a painted backdrop. Mademoiselle François, known as Mademoiselle de Taisy, singer at the Opéra Comique and the Opéra in 1861, in the role of Isaure of Thuringia, La Voix Humaine.

'Wogter opéra - dance' and negative number (86604) at the back in a later hand (Maurice Levert). Print in good condition.

ca. 1865

Literature: Elizabeth Anne McCauley, A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph, 1985

Provenance: collection Maurice Levert.