Étienne Carjat (1828-1906)

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1861-62) Carte De Visite, albumen print, image size, 920 x 550mm, on original CDV card mount, photographers credit lower margin, photographers credit stamp, and titled "Baudelaire" in pencil verso

A famous and rare photograph by Carjat showing the poet in full length, his right hand in his overcoat.

At that time, Baudelaire had already been sentenced to prison for the immorality of Fleurs du Mal. Baudelaire was closely linked to Carjat, to whom he often visited.

Album Baudelaire, Pléiade, 1974, n ° 307 (repr.); Étienne Carjat, Musée Carnavalet, 1982-1983, n ° 97 (slightly different format), repr. p. 21; Cl. Pichois and J. Ziegler, Baudelaire, Fayard, 2005, repr. in the central notebook; Cl. Pichois and J.-P. Avice, Baudelaire Paris, Paris Museums / Quai Voltaire, n ° 206, repr. p. 143; Iconography by Baudelaire, Geneva, Caillier, 1960.

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