CREMIERE (Léon). Set of 9 plates representing hunting dogs. Sl, [c. 1865]. In ff. (36 x 24 cm with margins). Set consisting of an original photograph, 3 black lithographs and 5 colored and gummed lithographs drawn from photographs. Assistant of the famous photographer Disderi, Léon Crémière created his own studio in Paris in 1862, and specialized in photographs of hunting and riding dogs. Settled at 28, rue Laval in Paris, he became editor and photographer of the house of the emperor Napoleon III in 1866. Good condition.

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