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![[Robert-Houdin] Dantan, Jean-Pierre (Dantan the Younger). Portrait of Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/xl/3543/35435343.jpeg?t=1VTbkl)
Lot 88
[Robert-Houdin] Dantan, Jean-Pierre (Dantan the Younger). Portrait of Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin.
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
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[Robert-Houdin] Dantan, Jean-Pierre (Dantan the Younger). Portrait of Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin. Paris, ca. 1848. Fine half-length lithographed profile portrait of the famed French conjurer, holding a cup with dominoes in one hand, a stack of dominoes in the other, and with a gibeci?re around his waist into which other dominoes fall. Sold with the printed poem that accompanied the portrait in the Album des Dominotiers, a privately printed work (said to have been produced in an edition of 70 copies, for club members only) from which the image was extracted. Approx. 14 x 11?. Tiny holes in margin, else very good. A crisp and bright impression. Said to be one of the earliest portraits of Robert-Houdin. Rare. Le Club du Domino, founded in 1838, was an exclusive association of well-known Frenchmen from the worlds of politics, literature, and the arts. Both Dantan the Younger and Robert-Houdin were members. See Fechner, The Magic of Robert-Houdin (2002), Vol. 1, page 325.
