Caricature of French librettist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Va%C3%ABz" class="extiw" title="en:Gustave Vaëz">Gustave Vaëz</a>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nadar" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nadar"><span title="French photographer and balloonist (1820–1910)">Nadar</span></a>
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1850s <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/8</div>
The image was cropped, converted to grayscale, manually adjusted for light levels, and converted to jpg format (quality level 10) with Photoshop Elements 10