Opening: $85 Hammer Price: $85 SOLD Skylight Gallery 26 March 2008

Cabinet-card format gelatin silver print of an actress with trained bear ca. 1900 by Stanislaus Walery, Paris. On heavy blue-green card with blindstamp front "Walery / 9bis Rue de Londres PARIS" and reverse imprint "Post Card Portrait / Photographie Walery / 9bis Rue de Londres, Paris / Téléphone 150,72."   ( Inventory# ic17c )

Some foxing to the card and image.

Walery was later to gain fame as photographer of the Folies Bergère and Josephine Baker.

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