(Hermance DELHAYE DESTOUCHES) (Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE)
Portrait photographique d'Hermance Delhaye Destouches, grand-mère paternelle de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
J. Couturier|Paris s. d. [ca 1900]|10.30 x 15.50 cm|une photographie au format carte cabinet
Photographic portrait of Hermance Delhaye Destouches (1830-1869), paternal grandmother of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, in cabinet card format on albumen paper mounted on cardboard from J. Couturier studio.
Cardboard slightly trimmed at lower margin. Handwritten caption on verso.
A bourgeoise of Flemish origin, Céline's grandmother married Auguste Destouches in 1860 and had five children. Upon the premature death of her husband in 1874, at the age of thirty-nine, the provincial Hermance tried her luck in Paris with Amélie, Céline's aunt, where she squandered her fortune and ended up being kept thanks to her daughter's demi-mondaine lifestyle.
In Mort à crédit, Céline borrows her second name, Caroline, for the character of the grandmother who runs the antique shop on rue Montorgueil. This aspect of the character, however, relates to the shopkeeper life of his maternal grandmother Céline Guillou, whose first name served as the writer's pen name.
Cardboard slightly trimmed at lower margin. Handwritten caption on verso.
A bourgeoise of Flemish origin, Céline's grandmother married Auguste Destouches in 1860 and had five children. Upon the premature death of her husband in 1874, at the age of thirty-nine, the provincial Hermance tried her luck in Paris with Amélie, Céline's aunt, where she squandered her fortune and ended up being kept thanks to her daughter's demi-mondaine lifestyle.
In Mort à crédit, Céline borrows her second name, Caroline, for the character of the grandmother who runs the antique shop on rue Montorgueil. This aspect of the character, however, relates to the shopkeeper life of his maternal grandmother Céline Guillou, whose first name served as the writer's pen name.
€1,700