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Musidora dans «Les Vampires»

Photographie publicitaire de Musidora revêtue de son collant noir devenu iconique grâce à son rôle d’Irma Vep dans le film Les Vampires de Louis Feuillade. Tirage argentique postérieur, circa 1915-16 | src Artprecium: 400 photographies de cinema por tous 8e edition / lot 6: les vampires
Musidora dans «Les Vampires», 1916, France. Series: Portrait de Stars. French collectors card. L’encyclopédie du Cinéma’. Collection Cinémathèque Française. | src eBay
Musidora wearing the iconic black silk maillot, in her role as Irma Vep in Les Vampires by Louis Feuillade, circa 1915. Vintage card. | src IMdB

The image above was probably a (role) portrait by Henri Manuel. The image credit is illegible but the typography used is the same as in other images of Musidora by Atelier Henri Manuel [Photo Manuel].

Musidora in Les Vampires [An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.] Louis Feuillade, 1915. | src Virtual History
Musidora in Les Vampires [An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.] Louis Feuillade, 1915. | src Virtual History

Musidora in «Les vampires»

Musidora in «Les vampires», 1915-16. Film stills captured from Musidora – Bande annonce (short video). «Rendez-nous Musidora» at La Cinématèque Française
Musidora in «Les vampires», 1915-16. Film stills captured from Musidora – Bande annonce (short video). «Rendez-nous Musidora» at La Cinématèque Française

Who is Musidora?

Photographie publicitaire de Musidora revêtue de son collant noir devenu iconique grâce au film Les Vampires de Louis Feuillade, ca. 1915 | Musidora, qui êtes-vous?
Who is Souricette? Musidora with her dog, Lacsalé. French cigarette card by Cigarettes Le Nil, nº 38. Photo by Henri Manuel | src flickr

In this cigarette card […] she is dressed in her famous costume from Les vampires. It’s a typical outfit worn by the thieves operating in hotels. […] In French, those thieves are called ‘souris d’hôtel’. ‘Souricette’ being a kind of diminutive form of ‘souris’, maybe that’s where the publishers got their idea.” Quoted from Flickr

Musidora as Irma Vep

Publicity shot of Musidora wearing her iconic maillot from the 1915 film Les Vampires by Louis Feuillade (ca. 1915) | src IMdB
Henri Manuel :: Photographie de Musidora (Irma Vep) allongée. (ca. 1915) | src La Cinémathèque Française | related post

Musidora par Henri Manuel

Henri Manuel ~ Photographie de Musidora allongée, tirage original monté sur carton avec cachet et signature du photographe et grande signature autographe de Musidora sur l’épreuve. | src La Gazette Drouot

Published in: Revue Variétés: Le Surréalisme en 1929. Bruxelles, juin 1929. Famous special issue of the Brussels magazine Variétés devoted to Surrealism in 1929 by André Breton and Louis Aragon.

Henri Manuel ~ Photograph of Musidora lying down, original print mounted on cardboard with stamp and signature of the photographer and large autograph signature of Musidora on the print. Not dated, probably around 1916.