The Southern Review, March 22nd, 1994
Gustave Flaubert disliked photography because he felt it was a refuge for bad painters who did not want to take the time to learn how to paint. Therefore, there are very few daguerreotypes of Flaubert and so the discovery of a previously unpublished photograph of Flaubert at approximately 25 years of age is unusual. However, an analysis of his life at that time reveals that the photograph was probably taken for his mistress, Louise Colet, to delay a confrontation over Flaubert's strong attachment to his mother.
In a surprising and previously unpublished quarter-plate daguerreotype, a young an...
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