[Photographie] Portrait photographique de Lamartine

Full-length albumen carte-de-visite photograph of Alphonse de Lamartine, taken by Adolphe Alexandre Martin.
Photograph mounted on card bearing A. Martin's name. Photographer's advertisement on verso. Fine print.
This sitting at Martin's studio produced several photographs of the writer, in slightly different poses. This same photograph can be found at the Lamartine museum, with the writer in a different pose, seated on the armchair visible in the background, with a plaid blanket on his knees; the Musée d'Orsay possesses one with the writer still seated, but without the plaid. This sitting was Lamartine's last, showing him shortly before his death. Furthermore, the exact date of the Martin sitting is not known. The various prints we have encountered in different poses bear the same address on the back: rue Nve Saint Augustin.
Adolphe Alexandre Martin was a photography pioneer; he invented the ferrotype in 1853, replacing glass plates with iron plates covered with collodion varnish.