(Hermance DELHAYE DESTOUCHES) (Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE)
Portrait photographique d'Hermance Delhaye Destouches, grand-mère paternelle de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
J. Couturier|Paris s. d. [ca 1900]|10.30 x 15.50 cm|une photographie au format carte cabinet
Photographic portrait of Hermance Delhaye Destouches (1830-1869), paternal grandmother of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, in cabinet card format on albumen paper mounted on cardboard from J. Couturier studio.
Cardboard slightly trimmed at lower margin. Handwritten caption on verso.
A bourgeoise of Flemish origin, Céline's grandmother married Auguste Destouches in 1860 and had five children. Upon the premature death of her husband in 1874, at the age of thirty-nine, the provincial Hermance tried her luck in Paris with Amélie, Céline's aunt, where she squandered her fortune and ended up being kept thanks to her daughter's demi-mondaine lifestyle.
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Cardboard slightly trimmed at lower margin. Handwritten caption on verso.
A bourgeoise of Flemish origin, Céline's grandmother married Auguste Destouches in 1860 and had five children. Upon the premature death of her husband in 1874, at the age of thirty-nine, the provincial Hermance tried her luck in Paris with Amélie, Céline's aunt, where she squandered her fortune and ended up being kept thanks to her daughter's demi-mondaine lifestyle.
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€1,700