FRANCE - BUSINESS CARDS - ACTORS - COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE - OPÉRA - Lot 319

FRANCE - BUSINESS CARDS - ACTORS - COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE - OPÉRA COMIQUE Set of 4 albums featuring portraits of actresses and actors from the Comédie-Française and Opéra Comique, all signed and dedicated to Madame Refoulé, director of the Théâtre du Châtelet, ca.1879-1914. Suzanne and Fernande Reichenberg (3 portraits), Gustave Worms, Blanche Barretta, Henry Samary, Berthe Fayolle, Adeline Dudlay, Émilie Broisat, Louis Leloir, Louis-Arsène Delaunay, Frédéric Febvre, Jeanne Ludwig, Coquelin cadet, Jules Truffier, Léopold Barré, Albert Lambert, Georges Baillet, Charles Prud'hon, Jean Coquelin, Jeanne Provost, Cécile Sorel, Marthe Chenal in Le Miracle, La Tosca and the roles of Ariane and Louise, Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar in "Chérubin", Nelly Martyl as Mireille and Sanga in "Le Roi d'Ys", Jeanne Bourdon in "Faust", Alice Raveaux in "Orphée", Lucy d'Arbell as Queen Amahelli ("Bacchus" by Massenet), Felia Litvinne, Jeanne Tiphaine in "Le Miracle", Maria Kousnezoff in "La Traviata", Marie Charbonnel in "Carmen", Ketty Lapeyrette, Murielle Demongeot, Marianne Nicot-Vauchelet in "Le Roi d'Ys", "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" and as Phryné, Geneviève Vix, Lina Cavalieri and Marguerite Carré in "Manon", Mathieu-Lutz, Jean Périer, Albert Alvarez in "Le Fils de l'Étoile", Fédor Chaliapine with his panama and in "Ivan le Terrible", Beyle in "Lakmé", Marthe Chenal, Marguerite, Mlle Depoix, Céline Chaumont, Mademoiselle Antonine, Céline Chaumont, Alice, Béatrice (dite Béatrix), Julia Depoix, 3 portraits of Yvette Guilbert, Neva Cartoux, Éva Martens, Louise Bonnet, Mlle Allems, Mlle Thuillier Leloir, opera singers Marie Heilbron and Mila Roeder, actresses Mlle Engalli, dancer Rosita Mauri, Ava Lowle Willing, Georgina : Countess of Dudley, Miss Eveleen Rayne, Countess of Lonsdale, Mrs Cornwallis-West, Connie Gilchrist, Mrs Langtry, Mary Anderson, Minnie Palmer, Lizzie Harold, Mary Anderson, Antonie Link, Desgranges, Marthe Chenal in Le Miracle, La Tosca and the roles of Ariane and Louise, Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar in "Chérubin", Nelly Martyl as Mireille and Sanga in "Le Roi d'Ys", Jeanne Bourdon in "Faust", Alice Raveaux in "Orphée", Lucy d'Arbell as Queen Amahelli ("Bacchus" by Massenet), Felia Litvinne, Jeanne Tiphaine in "Le Miracle", Maria Kousnezoff in "La Traviata", Marie Charbonnel in "Carmen", Ketty Lapeyrette, Murielle Demongeot, Marianne Nicot-Vauchelet in "Le Roi d'Ys", "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" and as Phryné, Geneviève Vix, Lina Cavalieri and Marguerite Carré in "Manon", Mathieu-Lutz, Jean Périer, Albert Alvarez in "Le Fils de l'Étoile", Fédor Chaliapine with his panama and in "Ivan le Terrible", Beyle in "Lakmé", Marthe Chenal. Photographs. 4 albums Album 1: comprising 26 prints, including 23 albumen, 2 citrate and 1 silver, mounted on cardboard in carte-de-visite format and divided as follows: 14 by Chalot, 8 by Melandri, 3 by Nadar, 2 by Reutlinger and 1 by Tourtin and Henri-Manuel. Album 2: Photographs. Album comprising 34 period silver prints mounted on cardboard in carte-cabinet format, including 11 by Reutlinger, 4 by Chéri-Rousseau and Berger, 3 by Boyer, Henri Manuel and Nadar, 2 by Pieperhoff and Bert and 1 by Félix and Ritzmann. Album 3: Photographs. 28 period prints, mainly citrate, by Chalot, Nadar, Reutlinger, Ogerau and Asti, some captioned in pencil under the image or on the back. Album 4: Album comprising 40 albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards, including 6 by Downey, 2 by Nadar, 6 by Löwy, 3 by Eliott & Fry and Schemboche, others by Reutlinger, Numa Blanc, Debas or Loescher & Petsch.