Portrait of Alexandre DUMAS (1802-1870) by Pierre PETIT (1831-1909).
 Business Card Format
 Original photograph on albumen paper, mounted on cardboard.
 Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), whose full name was Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French novelist and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and translated French authors in the world, famous for his historical novels and plays.
 Pierre Lanith PETIT (1831 - 1909) learned photographic techniques from Eugène Disdéri, the inventor of the carte-de-visite photograph. He was nicknamed "Collodion the Hairy".
 In 1859, he began an ambitious project for a Gallery of Men of the Day, composed of portraits accompanied by biographical notes of personalities at the center of current events in entertainment, culture and political life.