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Meyrianne Heglon (1867-1942), was Belgian born (of Danish extraction), and a mezzo soprano who spent most of her operatic career in France. She made her debut in 1890 at the Opera de Paris performing the role of Maddalena in Rigoletto. She enjoyed a long and successful career and was married to composer Xavier Leroux, well known himself for the writing of many popular operas.
Marvelous Art Nouveau, photo-montage creation by Leopold Reutlinger, very typical of some of his more fantastic series. At this point, it is very difficult to say what other artists were involved in the making of these series, but certainly Monsieur Reutlinger, with his original photographs as a foundation, was involved in the production of some really remarkable works of popular art. We aren't art critics to compare something like this to the work of Jules Cheret, or Alphonse Mucha, but we can't help but observe that if photography had not been relegated, for so long, to a position of less importance than other artistic mediums, Creative masters like Reutlinger would be much better known today, and better recognized for their contributions.
A lovely card in very nice condition. Some of the pink coloring agent appears to have worked its way onto the reverse of this card, as sometimes happened, and the card has a slightly musty smell, as if stored in grandma's attic-- a fine perfume to these collectors of old paper, but well, full disclosure :)
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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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