Carjat et Cie

Original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format, mounted on card, with photographer's stamp on verso and lower margin.
Full-length standing portrait of Gustave Doré, dressed in white, around age 35, wearing moustache and goatee. Very rare photograph of the painter in his youth, who was roughly the same age as Carjat.
The painter, with an absent and detached air, almost melancholy, in a very dandy pose, holds a cigar in his right hand with his left hand slipped into his trouser pocket.
Fine print. A copy held by the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, but in a much darker tonality.

Photographic portrait of Eugène Delacroix

Original photograph on albumen paper, in carte de visite format, mounted on a board. Some small foxing.

Rare copy of this photograph, only found at Carnavalet, Louvre and Orsay museums.

Photographic portrait of Narcisse Diaz de la Peña
Carjat et Cie, Paris s.d(circa 1860), 6 x 9.8 cm, one photograph
Original photograph on albumen paper, in carte de visite format, mounted on a board.
Beautiful copy of this portrait of the Barbizon painter.

Original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format, mounted on cardboard by Carjat & cie, with their mark on the verso. Below the photograph: Legé et Bergeron, who partnered with Carjat and worked between 1868 and 1873.
Full-length portrait of Baron Gudin in formal dress.
Manuscript annotation on verso.

Photographic portrait of Eugène Delacroix

Original photograph on albumin paper, in a visiting-card format, laid down on card. Foxing.
Very rare copy of this photograph, only found at Carnavalet, Louvre and Orsay museums.

Exceptionally rare original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format, mounted on card.

We have found no other copy of this photograph in international public collections.

Extremely rare original photograph showing Jules Verne in medallion on albumen paper, contemporary print in carte-de-visite format, mounted on a board from the Carjat & C^ie studio.

It is possible to date the photograph thanks to the card indicating in particular the address, rue Notre-Dame de Lorette, where Carjat was based between 1866 and 1869.
We have not been able to find any copy of this very rare photograph taken when the writer was around 40 years old.
Carjat took another portrait of the novelist in 1876 for his famous Galerie contemporaine. This earlier photograph – perhaps reserved for the private sphere – prefigures this future and very emblematic portrait: Verne is partially turned away, looking into the distance.