17.00 USD
Posted in 1904, this wonderful, undivided back card offers a hand-tinted image by Leopold Reutlinger of Amélie Dieterle, a French actress...a German actress...why the confusion? Well, Mlle. Dieterle was born in 1870, the illegitimate daughter of a German maid, and a French military officer, that's one...and for two, her first name is very French, her last name, very German, and three, she was born in Strasbourg, a city that is in the Alsace-Lorraine region on France's border with Germany. When she was born, Strasbourg was a French city, but within a year or two, it became a German one again, and so things continued for Strasbourg, well into the mid-1900s. from Napoleon, to the Kaiser, back to France again, then back to Hitler's Germany, and finally back to France. Geez, but we love history, and the people of Strasbourg have certainly experienced some "interesting" times.
As a young woman, Mlle. Dieterle studied music and voice at the Conservatory of Dijon. In 1889, she went to Paris, and by 1891, she was hired by Eugene Bertrand, the director of the Théâtre des Variétés, where she became a permanent and very successful fixture for the next 35 years. In addition to being both lovely, and no doubt talented, she was also the mistress of art collector Paul Gallimard, who happened to own the theater! Handy, that :)
In the world of Belle Epoque art, it is certainly worth mentioning that Mlle. Dieterle's portrait was painted not just once, but twice, by Auguste Renoir!
A very nice card. Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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