18.00 USD
Wonderful turban image of Marietta Ricotti, belle epoque actress. in costume for "Le Soupçon," (pronounced kind of like soup-soh) which in this context might mean "the "suspicion," as in " I have a soupçon this postcard seller might be about to tell us a story." "Le Soupçon" was a pantomime entertainment (pantomimes were extremely popular in that period) choreographed by Georges Wague, with music by Albert Chantrier.
One interesting thing about this card is that the photographer, Stanislaus Julian Walery, is, as we can tell by the text on the reverse, acting as his own publisher. We haven't run across that before. We're dating this card a little later than many of our Walery music hall/cafe-concert images, in part because Walery appears to have published it (which feels to us, since Walery opened his Paris studio in 1900, like something one does after being well established), but also because most of the references to Wague and Chantrier productions we've run across are placed in the early 1910s.
Mlle Ricotti had gorgeous, waist-length hair that is not shown to its best advantage in this image, but still a fantastic card with just a bit of a bend in the lower right corner. 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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