Count Benoît Henri Tyszkiewicz (1852-1935) - Lot 12

Count Benoît Henri Tyszkiewicz (1852-1935) Recueil du studio, 1895-1896. Theater. Actors. Female nudes. Marcelle Droxler. Mademoiselle Nocton. Casino de Paris. Blanche Dupré. Mademoiselle Ninon. Children of the midnight sun. Cyclist. Countess Petrowska. Count Antoine Tyszkiewicz. Marcelle Delavalle. Germaine Walter. Three (3) folio albums of approximately 54, 65 and 49 albumen prints respectively, mounted on cardboard. Some handwritten annotations and dates on the mounts. Some foxing on some prints. Sizes: from 20 x 16 to 40 x 29 cm Count Benedykt Henryk Tyszkiewicz, a pioneer of photography in Lithuania and listed as a member of the Société Française de Photographie (1884) and the Photo-Club de Paris (1898), frequented and accompanied the French pictorialist movement around 1900. His long-ignored photographic collection is gradually resurfacing. An exhibition dedicated to him will be held at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône at the end of 2024, as part of the Lithuanian Season in France.