Edouard Reményi
Photograph
Edouard Reményi
From the album Souvenir de l'exil
ca. 1853
Salted paper print
Image: 3 13/16 × 2 7/8 in. (9.7 × 7.3 cm)
Mount: 12 11/16 × 10 1/16 in. (32.3 × 25.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1979.0023.0025
Inscriptions Inscribed, signed and dated in ink, on mount recto, BC: Voilâ plus de vingt ans, que \ ce bonhomme d'en haut tient son \ violon - il était presque enfant - \ il n'est pas encore un vieillard, \ J'attend encore! \ A mon ami Mr le Jn [Jeune] \ Barbier \ Edouard Reményi \ Le Mans - 1877. \ le 10 Novembre.
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand), on mount recto, B: Note remise plusieurs années après par le modele.
[Translation: It has been more than twenty years that this man above holds his violin - he was almost a child - he is not yet an old man. I am still waiting! To my friend Mr. the Young Barbier, [signed[ Edouard Reményi, Le Mans - November 10, 1877. Notice written many years later by the model.]
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand), on mount recto, B: Note remise plusieurs années après par le modele.
[Translation: It has been more than twenty years that this man above holds his violin - he was almost a child - he is not yet an old man. I am still waiting! To my friend Mr. the Young Barbier, [signed[ Edouard Reményi, Le Mans - November 10, 1877. Notice written many years later by the model.]
