Etienne carjat charles baudelaire biography

This portrait of the writer Charles Baudelaire has controlled much of his posthumous representation both by artists and in the minds of his readers. It records his severe mouth, immoderate brow and the eyes a contemporary described as two drops of coffee.

Carjat was a notable caricaturist as well as one of the most sublet portrait photographers of the great period in Paris around This print was reproduced in a series of photographs of celebrities entitled 'Galerie Contemporaine' ().

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