Achille MÉLANDRI, Guy de MAUPASSANT
Photographie originale de Guy de Maupassant avec envoi autographe signé à la comtesse Potocka
Paris s. d. [1883]|10.70 x 16.40 cm|1 photographie monté sur carton
Rare original photographic portrait of the writer in full, realized by Achille Mélandri, enriched with an autograph signed signed "A Madame the Countess Potocka, his respectful friend, Guy de Maupassant".
For a long time, Maupassant, like Balzac or Flaubert, was resistant to the diffusion of his portrait in photography as in engraving. In an autograph note kept in the library at Rouen, he summarized his idea on this subject: " I have made an absolute rule to never let my portrait be published whenever I can prevent it. The exceptions took place only by surprise. Our works belong to the public, not our figures. In 1890 he even threatened to sue one of his publis
For a long time, Maupassant, like Balzac or Flaubert, was resistant to the diffusion of his portrait in photography as in engraving. In an autograph note kept in the library at Rouen, he summarized his idea on this subject: " I have made an absolute rule to never let my portrait be published whenever I can prevent it. The exceptions took place only by surprise. Our works belong to the public, not our figures. In 1890 he even threatened to sue one of his publis
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