拍品 197
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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.

拍品專文

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.