Theophile Gautier, French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic mb-code 42-57418854 'The Sacred Allegory'

'The Sacred Allegory'

Malcolm Campbell

Demons in the shape of duellists

President Andrew Johnson (who had taken office on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)

Plate 5 from Journal of a Route Across India

Theophile Gautier, French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic mb-code 42-57418854 'The Sacred Allegory'Theophile Gautier, French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic, c1857. Gautier (1811 1872) became a leader of the Parnassian group of poets, and influenced Baudelaire. He is pictured here reading to his wife Ernestina and their daughters Estelle and Judith. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1845 1890, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris 8, 1845 1890.