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H Beard Print Collection, by A. Collette, 1849

H Beard Print Collection

A. Collette

1849

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

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Overview

H Beard Print Collection is a 1849 by A. Collette, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?
A. Collette
When & what style?
1849 · Romanticism
Where can I see it?
Victoria and Albert Museum

The story of this work

Overview

A print from 1849 by A. Collette depicts Louis Amedée Mante.

Read the full account in the museum source.

About the artist

Artist

A. Collette

A. Collette had a thing for beards. Not the fancy kind, but the real, scraggly, lived-in ones. In the 1840s, they turned that obsession into prints—sharp little portraits of men’s facial hair that double as social…

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