164 - [MASSON, Frédéric].

[MASSON, Frédéric]. Portraits. A set consisting of an old black-and-white silver print on card stock (ca. 1900) and a drawn and colored portrait, signed J. BAC 1908. Description: Two portraits of the historian and academician Frédéric MASSON. -One, a well-known photograph taken in his library, depicts him in his later years standing in front of the library’s bookshelf; this photograph will be used in a publication. (15.2 x 22.5 cm)/ Annotation on the reverse: “Uncle Frédéric Masson.” -A portrait drawn in gray pencil and colored on an in-12-format sheet by Ferdinand Bac (whose real name was Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, 1859–1952). Although he signed simply “Bac,” the confusion with the initial “J.” stems from the historical association with his grandfather, Jérôme Bonaparte (whose father was Jérôme’s illegitimate son, making the artist a second cousin of Napoleon III). (12.5 x 25 cm).