jockey club SEM au bois ou Le retour des courses, JOCKEY-CLUB, Mercedes

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SEM (Georges Goursat, dit) & ROUBILLE (Auguste) for the fiacres
 Sem au bois or Le retour des courses
s.l., 1907-1908, scrolling color lithographed panorama (3 m × 34 cm) & mounted on heavy paper, three cracks across the width, some small losses at the edges & cuts, thumbtack holes.
The return of the whole of Paris from Longchamp to Paris of personalities who attended the 1907 Grand Prix de Paris, whose winner was the stallion Sans Souci II of Baron Édouard de Rothschild. We can thus identify, thanks to a former owner who pencilled the names of the depicted and guessed characters (by the way we leave you the freedom to erase these pencil markings) on this leporello (folding pamphlet): many members of the prestigious Jockey‑Club, society figures, elegant ladies, coquettes, Belle Époque personalities, Lydie Dujardin, Nissim de Camondo, Blanche d'Al..., Prince Troubetskoï, Rita Dee Guido, E. d'Alençon, the famous Polaire, Edmond and Alphonse de Rothschild, Arthur Meyer, Grand Duke Alexis & Grand Duke Michel, Duke de Morny, Lauriston, M. de Boisgelin, Prince d'Arenberg...