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1904Pro4<p><b>PROUST Jeanne WEIL 1849-1905</b></p><p>5th December 1904 original period film print. Round photography 159 cm diameter mounted on thick paper frame in the photographer's name.Tiny spot on lower margin of the mounting small stainStamp on verso from collection Suzy Mante-Proust collection</p><p><b>One of Jeanne Weil Proust's last portraits less than a year before her death</b></p><p>This portrait was taken on December 5th 1904. At this time aged 56 years old Proust's mother has been a widow for a year. The translation of his son's <i>The Bible of Amiens</i> was published that same year. She died of nephritis a year later on September 26 1905. Nadar did process her portrait and removed the shadows and various flaws on her face.</p><p>Michel Schneider notes that the narrator's mother in the <i>Search</i> is obviously inspired by the mother of the author himself. Jeanne Proust was born Jeanne Weil in 1849 from a Jewish family of the enlightened bourgeoisie. Much has been said about the intellectual complicity that united her with elder son. Marcel Proust who during his mother's lifetime wrote only <i>beautiful</i>things in the spirit of the time <i>Pleasures and Days</i> will not become the novelist of the <i>Search</i> until after the death his mother an event that has somehow freed his creation. In the novel the grief he felt at his death is shifted to that of the grandmother and that of Albertine. In the <i>Search</i> Mom doesn't die she is also mentioned more than 500 times.</p><p>Provenance:<br />-Proust Family<br />-Suzy Mante-Proust only daughter of Robert Proust by descent<br />-Patricia Mante-Proust granddaughter of Suzy Mante-Proust by descent</p><p><u>References:</u><br />Nadar repr. p. 32 in full. <br />Cattaui n° 59 repr. <br />Mauriac repr. p. 10.</p>
1910Flo15<p><strong>FLAUBERT Paul NADAR 1856-1939</strong></p><p>Late print depicting Flaubert in bust<br />Paris c. 1910 cabinet format laminated on thick cardboard to the photographer's credit<br />Near fine condition except for a very slight defect on the right part of the portrait<br />"Flaubert" inscribed on verso by an unknown person<br />Stamp on verso: "E. Hautecœur – 35 avenue de l'Opéra – Paris"</p><p><strong>Very rare and legendary portrait of the writer by Nadar during the years of writing his novel <em>L'Éducation sentimentale</em> </strong></p><p>Flaubert's iconography is limited to say the least. Only four photographic portraits of the writer are known:<br />-Two portraits by Étienne Carjat in Italian format taken during two different sessions<br />-A portrait in profile by Giacomo Borelli probably taken during the Universal Exhibition of 1867 which Flaubert attended<br />-A portrait by Felix Nadar of bust in three quarters the one presented here</p><p>Paul Nadar son of Félix Nadar 1820-1910 had begun to collaborate with his father in 1886. This late print is therefore based on the one taken by Felix between 1865 and 1869.</p><p><u>Flaubert's photographic portraits even later prints are of great rarity.</u></p><p>When Flaubert died on May 8 1880 his face was unknown. He is an exception in a century where the face of the artist has multiplied through engraving and photography. The absence of an image results from the express will of the author: he refused consistently to "deliver" his head to the public.</p><p><u>Reference:</u><br /><em>Album Gustave Flaubert</em> éd. Yvan Leclerc Pléiade p. 184 n°147</p>
