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Really a lovely image. Lucette Darbelle was a very popular French chanteuse in the early teens and into the 20s. She performed in a number of the great night spots of Paris and many theatrical reviews are available (in google translatable French), online. All of the performance notices we came across were between 1910 and 1924, so although this image does look a bit older to us, we'd place it just generally in the teens, except that GG was a German publishing house out of Berlin, the photographer was probably Martin Gerlach himself, and so the likelihood is that this photo is pre-war, and an early one of Lucette. The lace is really marvelous, no? And what a beauty she was.
Martin Gerlach Jr. (1879-1944), was one of the most renowned photographers in Austria during his day. He learned his art from his father, Martin Gerlach Sr. The GG trademark found at the bottom of many finely photographed German postcards of the Jugendstil Epoche was the logo for Gerlach and Gerlach. However, most of the Gerlach cards that pass through our shop were published between 1900 and 1915, and can therefore be attributed directly to Martin Gerlach Jr., since his father passed away in 1899.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 beginning today, when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free!
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