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A portrait by Gérôme for Washington
10/6/26 - Acquisition - Washington, National Gallery of Art - The lover of his mother was his literary mentor. Édouard Delessert, son of Gabriel Delessert and Valentine de Laborde, indeed harboured literary ambitions and followed the advice of Prosper Mérimée: he contributed to the Revue de Paris between 1851 and 1858, founded L’Athenaeum français, a universal review of literature, science and fine arts, in 1852, and finally published accounts of his travels, Voyage aux villes maudites in 1853, Une nuit dans la cité de Londres in 1854, and Six semaines dans l’île de Sardaigne in 1855. But this jack-of-all-trades, who squandered his fortune, was above all a pioneer of photography, using the calotype, just like his cousin Benjamin Delessert. He accompanied Félicien de Saulcy in 1850 in…
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