RARE AMBROTYPE OF FRENCH WRITER AND SATIRIST ROGER DE BEAUVOIR
$1450. USD
Here we see the French writer of satire, comfortable in his chair, holding a
manuscript.
A salt print of Roger de Beauvoir is in the Getty Museum Collection.
SIZE. Sixth plate.
HOUSING. Scallop Shell union case. Clasp works. Good condition. This case is listed as RARE in Union Cases, by Krainik, Krainik, and Walvoord and Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames, by Paul Berg.
CONDITION. Very good condition.
APPEARANCE. Very good contrast. Strong composition. A masterfully executed portrait.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. "Roger de Beauvoir (8 November 1806 – 27 August 1866) was the pen name of French Romantic novelist and playwright Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger. His wit, good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Procs, written in 1849. Afflicted with gout and nearly destitute from his flamboyant lifestyle, he spent the last few years of his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris. His best-known works included Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1840), Les Oeufs de Paques (1856) and Le Pauvre Diable (reprinted 1871)." (source: Wikipedia)