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Great hand-tinted seasonal montage of a Leopold Reutlinger portrait of stage performer Elise De Vere superimposed onto a holly branch in a wintry night sky. Not certain how many images there were in this series, but we have two of Miss De Vere that we'll be showing off today, and we've run across a number of images of other artistes on holly branches and also on sprigs of mistletoe. Lots of fun :)
Elise De Vere was not French. She was an Englishwoman, born Constance, one of several children of Herbert Shakespeare Gardiner Williams (aka Charles De Vere), a stage magician, and Julia Ferret (aka Okita) also a stage magician. They traveled and lived all over Europe, and at one point owned a magic shop in Paris, not far from the Folies Bergeres. The family was deeply entrenched within the Entertainment community, and so it's no wonder Elise took to the stage.
Of related interest is that although Elise herself didn't seem to take to stage magic, her younger sister Clementine, in between training wild animals in the circus, and marrying a Russian prince and going into hiding from the Bolsheviks, became Ionia the Enchantress, a stage magician who is almost legendary in "magic" circles.
A very nice card. 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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