Louis-Pierre HENRIQUEL-DUPONT (Victor SCHOELCHER)
Portrait signé de Victor SchoelcherSigned Portrait
1832|25.50 x 33 cm|une feuille
Pencil portrait of Victor Schoelcher by Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, signed and dated 1832.
Uniformly browned, some foxing. A small wove paper label with the name of Victor Schoelcher in pen pasted on the verso, accompanied by a mention of a previous bibliographer in pencil, also on the verso.
A precious unpublished early portrait of the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, at the age of 28.
This portrait was presented at the 1833 Salon: 'M. Victor Schoelcher [...] whose charming portrait, drawn by M. Henriquel-Dupont, can be seen just beside the Salon's entrance. Charming indeed, broad and full of character' (Augustin Jal, <
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