[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Pierre-Joseph-Marie Proudhon

Original photograph of Pierre-Marie-Joseph Proudhon produced using the gelatin silver process mounted on cardboard from the Reutlinger studio in Paris.
This photograph was taken in Charles Reutlinger's studio at the request of painter Gustave Courbet, who was then creating a portrait of the philosopher now preserved at the Petit Palais museum in Paris. Proudhon died on January 20, 1865 before posing for Courbet, making this image one of the painter's only sources of inspiration for his posthumous portrait: "go to Reutlinger and ask him on my behalf [...] for the large portrait he made of the philosopher according to my pose. I want to paint him at 146 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, with his children, his wife, as befits the wise man of this time and the man of genius" (Letter to Jules Castagnary, January 20, 1865, cited in Chakè Matossian, Saturne et le Sphinx : Proudhon, Courbet et l'art justicier).