Portrait of Victorien SARDOU
Photography
Inventory number
2021.6.7.8.PH.VI.C1870.FRAuthor:
Ferdinand MULNIER (French 1817 - 1891)Description
Half-length photographic portrait of a man wearing a jacket and a blazer with a white stand-up collar and a polka-dot tie.The man is Victorien SARDOU (1831 - 1908) a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca (1887) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (1900) is based, and Fédora (1882) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) that provided the subjects for the lyrical dramas Fedora (1898) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1915) by Umberto Giordano. His play Gismonda, from 1894, was also adapted into an opera of the same name by Henry Février.
Materials
Analog photographyCardboard
Origin
circa 1870 Paris, FranceDimensions
Length : 6 cmHeight : 9.5 cm