Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 200:
FELIX, RACHEL
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Start price:
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200
Estimated price:
$300 - $500
Auction house commission: 25%
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FELIX, RACHEL
Silver print photograph portrait.
Affixed to paper backing.
2 x 3 inches (5 x 7.5 cm).
Rachel Felix (1821-58) was one of the great French actresses of the 19th century. She was an enormous celebrity in her time, whose private life and relationships fascinated the public no less than her accomplishments onstage. She was from a Jewish family of modest background, and resisted attempts to be converted to Catholicism her entire life. Her funeral was attended by a broad spectrum of French society, presided over by Lazard Isidor (1813-88), then chief rabbi of Paris.
