Artist/Photographer: G. Fontaine (active 1855–1888).
Title: Portrait of Alexandre Dumas fils, French author and playwright.
Dimensions: Image: 9 2/8" × 7 1/2". Sheet: 13" × 10 1/8".
Publisher: Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire et Artistique, 1876. Vol. 1. Phot. Goupil & Cie.
Date: 1860s (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Materials and Techniques: Woodburytype, mounted on typographic mat board.
Condition: Good. Margins trimmed; light surface wear consistent with age.
Museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 1992.5148.26. J. Paul Getty Museum, object no. 84.XB.300.12.
Art Movements, Periods and Schools: French School XIX C.
Note: From the series Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire et Artistique, a major late nineteenth-century French publication documenting leading cultural figures through photographic portraiture, often reproduced as woodburytypes by Goupil & Cie.