Charles Reutlinger was born in 1816 and came from a French family of German descent. He founded his studio in 1850 and photographed many of the best-known artists, musicians and writers of his time, including Liszt, Verdi and Berlioz. In 1880, Charles Reutingler handed over his studio to his brother Emile Reutlinger. Emile's son Leopold-Emile Reutlinger began to work for his father when he went to Paris from Peru in 1883. He took over the Reutlinger studio in 1890 and produced photographs for advertising purposes, as well as for magazines and newspapers. He frequently held exhibitions of his work in the offices of the newspapers that he worked for. Leopold-Emile also added erotic images to the Reutlinger portfolio.
The studio flourished, making photographs for commercial and advertising usage, but also mass-producing portraits of performers for the adoring and collecting public. Leopold-Emile stopped working in 1930 when he lost an eye in an accident with a champagne cork.
The Reutlinger Studio, closed its doors in 1937.
For my recreation of this photograph, the model has a similar pose, but is facing the opposite direction and is fully clothed and covered with a scarf. I chose to make these changes in my interpretation because I thought the model in the original photograph looked cold and uncomfortable. I think that if she was wearing a sweater and scarf, like the model in my recreation is, she would have been more at ease and the photo would have looked more natural. I used a simple white background for the image, in order to replicate the original.
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