Live auction - Lot 261
[France - Politics]
Portrait of Léon Gambetta.
[C. 1875]
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
Woodburytype (?) photo print (faded and browned), 20 x 15 cm (oval), stuck on cardboard with embossing stamp, handwritten signed dedication "A Monsieur Deverveldt, souvenir cordial".
Gambetta (1838-1882) was one of the most important political figures of the first years of the Third Republic and plays a key role in the survival of the republican regime in France after the fall of the Second Empire. Carjat (1823-1906) was a renowned caricaturist as well as a photographer, a career he started about 1858.
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