Vintage double-weight Studio Harcourt, Paris portrait photograph of the French actress in profile, partially in the light, eyes closed and smoking a cigarette, signed and inscribed in black ink in the upper right: "A Hélène de Poutiloff / sympathiquement / F. Rosay." Harcourt Paris imprint at lower right; not captioned with her name. With scalloped edges. Inscription somewhat light against the hair, else fine. 4.5 x 7 inches; 11.2 x 17.5 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Rosay was one of the great character actresses of French cinema, celebrated for La Kermesse héroïque (1935), directed by her husband Jacques Feyder.
“In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologies (1957).
Vintage double-weight Studio Harcourt, Paris portrait photograph of the French actress in profile, partially in the light, eyes closed and smoking a cigarette, signed and inscribed in black ink in the upper right: "A Hélène de Poutiloff / sympathiquement / F. Rosay." Harcourt Paris imprint at lower right; not captioned with her name. With scalloped edges. Inscription somewhat light against the hair, else fine. 4.5 x 7 inches; 11.2 x 17.5 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Rosay was one of the great character actresses of French cinema, celebrated for La Kermesse héroïque (1935), directed by her husband Jacques Feyder.
“In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologies (1957).