(Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE) (René, Georges and Charles DESTOUCHES)
Portrait photographique de jeunesse du père de Louis-Ferdinand Céline accompagné de ses trois frères
Paris circa 1875|13.20 x 21.80 cm|une photographie
Original photograph mounted on rigid cardboard, showing Fernand Destouches, father of writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (top right) posing alongside his brothers René, Georges and Charles - from top to bottom and left to right.
Edges of the rigid cardboard slightly bumped.
This portrait of the four Destouches brothers in uniform with laurel collar, dates from their happy schoolboy years at the Le Havre lyceum. The photograph, a true incarnation of a carefree and bygone past, must undoubtedly have held importance in the eyes of the four brothers, who would reproduce as adults the exact pose of this childhood portrait for a second, family portrait, preserved in the collection of Fran
€3,000