Charles REUTLINGER, Alexandre DUMAS
Portrait photographique original avec envoi autographeOriginal photographic portrait with signed inscription
1854|6.50 x 10.50 cm|une feuille
Original carte-de-visite portrait signed and inscribed by Alexandre Dumas.
Albumen print photograph on mount. Stamp of Charles Reutlinger's studio in Paris on verso.
Very fine portrait signed and inscribed on the lower part of the mount: "A Madame aimée Persat, A. Dumas".
Probably gifted to the second wife of Maurice Persat, an officer who took part in the Napoleonic Wars as well as Independence uprisings in Latin America, Spain and Greece, where he bought back a young Turkish slave, Adélé. Back in France, she was placed in a convent under the protection of the governor of Marseille and converted to Catholicism. Persat, a liberal and agitator,
€2,000