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Bust portrait of the poet Leconte de L'Isle, dressed in a formal suit with a bow tie. The reverse details his role in the Parnassian movement, citing his preface to Poèmes antiques (1852) and his disagreement with Mallarmé in 1891. The publisher is Édito-Service S.A. with the stamp 'L'Aurore' from the Paris/Ile-de-France press.