Antique & Vintage Postcards

A graceful marble nymph presses her body tenderly against a rough-hewn rock face in this exquisite 1905 Paris Salon photographic postcard — the sculptor Levasseur's fluid rendering of feminine form and textured stone captured with luminous precision by the celebrated Neurdein (ND) photographic house. Exhibited at the Salon de 1905, "Nymphe à la source" ("Nymph at the Spring") embodies the late academic tradition at its most poetic, and the ND Phot series documenting that year's Salon constitutes one of the most thorough photographic records of Belle Époque French sculpture ever published on postcard stock. This card, numbered 950 Dt., is unused with a clean "Carte Postale" reverse bearing the Société de Propagation des Bonnes Nouvelles (SPBN) publisher's cartouche — an early undivided-back transitional format. A rare primary-source document of a specific exhibited artwork, appealing to Fine Art, French history, and Belle Époque postcard collectors.