Eugénie de Montijo, or Empress Eugénie, was fascinated by Marie Antoinette. Eugénie was an avid collector of memorabilia related to the late...

Camille Clifford (1885-1971) is best known for her work as a model for "Gibson Girl" illustrations, though she did plenty of stag...

I am in love with the soft, dreamy quality of Jules Gervais-Courtellemont's autochromes of costumed actors at Versailles. I was fortunat...

I've really fallen in love with these romantic autochromes of players/actors at Versailles, taken by Jules-Gervais Courtellemont...

There's something special about vintage photographs of people, whether it's someone's personal family pictures or a phot...

Earlier this summer, I posted a small collection of Jules Gervais-Courtellemont autochromes/autochrome prints of "life at Versailles,...

  image credit: gallica.bnf.fr   "Thérèse had lived in many places, but there was none so haunted as Trianon, or as vibrant with...

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863-1931) was a French photographer who is most well known for his color autochromes of World War I, which wer...