LOUIS ROUSSELET (1845-1929)

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LOUIS ROUSSELET (1845-1929)

Mr. Louis Rousselet in Court Dress

Albumen print. Circa 1865-68. Arched corners, double-mounted on thin paper then card, with printed number 71, individual and series title Voyage in India by Mr. L. Rousselet in French and English, additional title Bhopal and publisher's credit Goupil & Cie. à Paris.....

7 x 5½ in. (17.8 x 14 cm.)

Literature

See: Lafont-Couturier and Renié, L'Inde Photographies de Louis Rousselet 1865-1868

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Lot Essay

A fine and exotic self-portrait in the Orientalist style by this young author and photographer of Indian subjects, who left his home in Marseille and commenced his travels in 1863, when he was only eighteen.

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