Engraved portrait.
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8vo (134 x 204 mm). Engraving on paper. Together with two newspaper clippings.
€ 100.00
Léopold Flameng's engraving is a reproduction of a photograph of Gérard de Nerval by Félix Nadar from around 1854/55. It appeared posthumously in "L'Artiste", a weekly illustrated review that had published many of Nerval's works.
The older newspaper clipping is Pierre Dax's obituary for Gérard de Nerval's father (L'Artiste, 5 June 1859). The second article is a speculative account of Nerval's "alleged suicide" that was published by "L'Illustration" on 30 January 1932, roughly 77 years after the writer's death.
All with traces of former mounting.