FRANCE - VISITING CARDS - WRITERS - ACTORS - Lot 310

FRANCE - VISITING CARDS - WRITERS - ACTORS Actor René-François Boutin's album of carte-de-visite portraits of writers and actors, ca.1861-1868. Photographs. Album with 100 carte-de-visite format albumen prints mounted on cardboard, mostly by Carjat and Disdéri. A photolithograph by Boutin after Carjat is included. Numerous prints dedicated to Boutin (or his wife), notably by : Alexandre Dumas, Amédée de Jallais, Lingé, Adolphe Desbarrolles, Édouard Plouvier, Angelici, Clément Just, Hatten, Johannès Gravier, Eugène Castellano, Goût, Dica-Petit, Mme Alexis, Coralie Geoffroy, Rosélia Rousseil; portraits of Victor Koning, Delphine Ugalde, Émile Wartel and Pauline Viardot dedicated to Léo Delibes; numerous portraits of actors Frédérick Lemaître and René François Boutin, Adrien Perlet, José Dupuis, Henry Monnier, Regnier de la Brière, Pierre Alfred Ravel, Coquelin cadet, Louis Dumaine, Édouard Plouvier, Jules Claretie, Michel Masson, Hippolyte Tisserant, François-Pierre Villaret, self-portrait of Carjat, Timothée Trimm, Jean-Baptiste Faure, Antoine Renard, Adèle Page, Réjane, Léonide Leblanc, Mily-Meyer, Mlle Marie Rose, Virginie Déjazet, Alphonsine Mary, Mademoiselle George, Célestine Galli-Marié, Céline Montaland, Adelina Patti, Marie Laurent, Madeleine Brohan, Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, Marie Sass, Eudoxie Laurent, Sophie Croizette. Album size: 27.6 x 23 cm