Portrait photographique dédicacé de Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly en tenue de roulier normand

Original period albumen photograph depicting Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly in an eccentric outfit consisting of a limousine and a Norman carter's cape.

The writer has added his signature in red ink at the bottom of the print.
The portrait is housed in a charming frame, unfortunately showing some tears and cracks, under a mat covered with pink tapestry.

We could only find two examples of this photograph: one, uninscribed, at the Musée Gustave Moreau and another, bearing an inscription, catalogued during the sale of J. C. D's library, a Norman collector, in 2005.
A rare and remarkable portrait of the writer who, in 1845 in his essay Du dandysme, praised sartorial refinement: « Un Dandy peut mettre s'il veut dix heures à sa toilette, mais une fois faite, il l'oublie. Ce sont les autres qui doivent s'apercevoir qu'il est bien mis. » ["A Dandy may spend ten hours on his toilette if he wishes, but once done, he forgets it. It is others who must notice that he is well dressed."]