Impressive autograph album belonging to Emma Fagnani, wife of Italian-American portrait painter Giuseppe Fagnani, featuring 40 autographs of 19th-century painters (mainly of the French Academic, Orientalist, and Classical Schools), comprising letters, not
$ 6,287 / 6.000 €
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Signers include: Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Etienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour, Rosa Bonheur, Leon Bonnat, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Gustave Boulanger, Alexander Cabanel, Carolus-Duran, Giuseppe Castiglione, Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix, Edouard Joseph Dantan, Paul Delaroche, Edouard Detaille, Gustave Dore, Francois-Louis Francais, Elizabeth Gardner, Jean-Leon Gerome, Gustave Guillaumet, Henri Harpignies, Ernest Hebert, Jean-Jacques Henner, Gustave Jacquet, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Frederick Leighton, Maurice Leloir, Hector Leroux, Emile Levy, Leon Augustin Lhermitte, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Ernest Meissonier, Aime Millet, Henry Mosler, Leopold Muller, Tony Robert-Fleury, Rene de Saint-Marceaux, Alfred Stevens, Jehan Georges Vibert, William Wyld, Edmond Yon, and Felix Ziem. In overall very good to fine condition, with moderately heavy wear to the covers; inner pages are generally clean, although some pages have been clipped where items have been removed.