Paul Verlaine - Original photograph of the poet at the Café François Ier.

Paul Verlaine (1844.1896)

Original photograph of the poet by Paul Marsan dit Dornac.

Vintage albumin draw laminated on strong cardboard.

Paris. May 28, 1892.

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Mythical cliché representing the poet avachi on the Bench of Café François Ier, alcoholic soul and troubled gaze. On the table, sits a glass of red wine, its cane, a inkwell and a newspaper.

This shooting is to be compared to the one that represents it in the same establishment, sitting in another place in the bench, with a glass of absinthe.

Photo taken by Paul Cardon, also known as Paul Marsan, known as DORNAC, for the series Our contemporaries at home. Dornac dry stamp in lower left corner.

Format: 8.80 x 11.50 cm

Verlaine album. Pleiade. pp. 215-216.