JEAN LOUIS DELTON

Autographed portrait of Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, 1899

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JEAN LOUIS DELTON
Autographed portrait of Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, 1899
Gelatin silver print, 6¼ x 9 in., mounted on card within decorative red border, photographer's printed credit on mount Delton, au Bois de Boulogne/Photographie Hippique [equestrian photographer], signed Cte. de Chasseloup-Laubat, dated 4 Mars 1899 and with other inscriptions in ink on mount.

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The portrait shows Count Gaston aboard his Jentaud electric vehicle when he established the Land Speed Record at Archères, to the west of Paris, on 4 March 1899. The details given on the mount confirm the speed was the equivalent of 57.65 mph.

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