ABSTRACT
A photograph of a man with a well-tended hairdo and mustache, strong arms folded over his broad bare chest. His name: Coeurderoy – evidently not the well-known anarchist writer Ernest. The photograph 1 belongs to Lucien Descaves’ collection of portraits of Communards 2 , and caught our attention when we prepared this collection for digitization (a project made possible by the agreement Jaap Kloosterman reached with the Sns Reaal banking and insurance company, by which some of the Iish’s most famous collections are being digitized).
