Description
RARE frontispiece hand-coloured photoprint from ‘L’Illustration, Journal Universel’ No. 2880 – 56e Année’; text on verso.
This weekly French magazine, founded by Edouard Charton, was published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. L’Illustration became the first French newspaper to publish a photograph in 1891 and a colour photograph in 1907. The magazine was shut down in 1944 following the Liberation of Paris. Another version re-opened in 1945 under the name France-Illustration, but went bankrupt in 1957.
