Portraits of Robert, Count of Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921)

French aesthete, Symbolist poet, painter, art collector, dandy and the inspiration for many painters, writers and photographers. As one author described him:

“Tall, black-haired, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand—the poseur absolute.”

1) Henri-Lucien Doucet, 1870
2) James McNeill Whistler, 1892
3) Nadar, 1895

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