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ABBEMA LOUISE (1858-1927)

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ABBEMA LOUISE (1858-1927)
- ALBUM of 60 original pen-and-ink, or graphite and red chalk drawings, most of them with autograph captions signed by the characters portrayed, 1879-1891| 60 leaves of about 20 x 14 cm
mounted on strong blue-grey paper ff. of an album bearing the label of the stationer Ch. Fortin, bound in full brown chagrin with the figure L.A. in cold on the upper cover.
Louise Abbéma's personal album, gathering 60 portraits drawn by her, a gallery of dramatic artists, painters, draughtsmen and sculptors, writers, composers, etc., who commented on or signed their portraits. Sarah Bernhardt ("You make me prettier than I am. I made you less pretty than you are! We are even", 25 February 1879), the lawyer and collector P.A. Chéramy,
Gabrielle Tholer, Gaston Salvayre (with music), Blanche Barretta,
Jules Bastien-Lepage, A. Contat-Desfontaines, Auguste Dormeuil,
Marie Grenier, Narcisse Blavet, Victoria Dewinter, Antoine Le Vasseur,
Marie Kekler, Gaston Serpette, Auguste Coedès, L. Guyotier, Colonel
Lichtenstein, Alfred Blau, Auguste Rouzaud, Ferdinand Poise, A. de La Foulhouze, Ribblesdale, Victor Koning, Charles Garnier, Carolus-
Duran ("I wish I were like that!"), Christine Nilsson, Louis
Eyriès, Georges Clairin ("Yes - it's Jojotte all right! Thank you Mademoiselle"), Dr Aimé Martin, Belza du Fresnoy, Lilette, Charles Chaplin,
Alice Ducasse, Lucien Guitry ("Oh Mademoiselle don't expect anything spiritual from me. But be sure of a very sincere and not at all banal feeling of admiration"...), Albert Grenier, Jules Diaz de Soria,
Jules Claretie ("Such as I would like to be"), Jean-Jacques Henner ("Thank you for this charming memory, but you made me too beautiful"),
Alexandre Falguière, Ernest Guiraud, Quatrelles, Léo de Leymarie,
Léon Legrand (to the gallant comment, Louise Abbéma reacts noting "What a moron!"), Magdeleine Godard, Marie-Louise Grenier,
L. de Barbot, Marius Fontane, Georges Baillet, Paul Pierret, etc.
ATTACHED are a photograph of the artist with his dog, an etching by Félix Buhot after a drawing by Abbema (1874), and his engraved portrait for the Mariani album