[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Jules Verne

Original albumen photograph representing Jules Verne, carte-de-visite format, mounted on heavy cardboard from the Nadar studio "51 rue d'Anjou St Honoré".
Pen annotation on verso, with advertising information for the Nadar studio. Gold medal. Universal Exhibition 1878. Blue stamp; Publisher J. Kuhn, Paris.
Jules Verne met Nadar in 1861 and the two men became friends, the man left a deep impression on him and his adventures inspired him for Five Weeks in a Balloon [Nadar would join with Jules Verne to create a Society for the encouragement of balloon transport], From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. The author describes him thus in From the Earth to the Moon: "He is a man of 42 years, tall, but already a little stooped, like those caryatids who carry balconies on their shoulders. His strong head, a veritable lion's mane, shook at moments a fiery hair, which made him a true mane. A short face, broad at the temples, adorned with a bristling mustache like a cat's whiskers and small somewhat disheveled tufts, a myopic gaze, completed this eminently feline physiognomy."
Handsome portrait of the writer by Nadar where he appears particularly warm and benevolent.