19.00 USD
In wonderful condition, this is a card out of a very popular series published by A. Noyer, and photographed by the "notorious" Jean Agelou. The lovely model, with her dark, Mediterranean eyes, is one of our favorites, though we have yet to learn her name. Images out of this series were circulated widely, often with printed holiday greetings and such, overlaid onto the images.
Agelou also used this model in a number of "steamy" nude and risque photographs.
Our fourth image in this listing is of a card also for sale (in our shop's "risque" section), though not for sale in "this" listing. Only the hand-colored image of the young lady in the lace gown and feathered hat is offered in this listing.
We are showing this risque image, in order to point out the use of props (chair, table,vase, trompe l'oeil), that are identical to those being used in the non-risque card. This serves to point out that our card is an unidentified Agelou image, and also that Agelou used the same studio for the production of both his risque/nude images, and those non-risque images that presumably reached a far broader audience. We have also run across these props in a number of other identified Agelou images.
Also, this may not be obvious at first viewing, but the model, in both images, is the same young woman. Though the risque image is a profile shot, and so somewhat misleading in features, note the beauty mark, or mole, and the bracelets (two on the left arm, one on the right).
I guess it is little details like this that we often find the most rewarding in our work, little pieces of a big picture that, coming together, provide us with a clearer perspective of the whole.
Jean Agelou was born in Alexandria Egypt, to French parents, in 1878. Active as a photographer in France from at least the early 1900s, he is best known today for his risque "french postcards."
He and his brother George also produced "legitimate" work, but his nude postcards are often marked with JA , or sometimes GA, for George Agelou, though we've read in a few places that George was not, himself, the photographer, but only handled the business end of their partnership.
As this card shows, Agelou also published with Alfred Noyer, one of the giants of the French postcard industry.
Jean Agelou, and his brother George, both died as a result of an automobile accident, in 1921.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.
Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.
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