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Film from the wedding of the Duc de Guiche and Élaine Greffulhe November 1904. The young man in the bowler hat has frequently been identified erroneously as Proust.

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Two photographs from the archives of Léon Bélugou supposedly showing Proust at the races, Deauville in 1905

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4
Sometimes described as a portrait of Proust by Jacques-Émile Blanche

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A suggested title was a portrait of Proust

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Another painting described as a portrait of Proust

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Not Proust 7
Actually Friedrich Engels at the International Socialist Workers' Congress in Zurich in 1893

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Not Proust 8
A mysterious photograph that is certainly not of Marcel Proust

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not proust 9
An image claiming to be Marcel and Robert as children with no proof

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not proust 10
Sometimes captioned as Proust and Agostinelli, it is actually Odilon Albaret and Alfred Agostinelli

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Another painting offered for sale as a portrait of Proust

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not proust
Painting offered for sale, "presumed" to be of Proust, by Philibert Vigoureux, 1899

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Yet another painting offered for sale - "Portrait présumé de Marcel Proust, Jean Charbonnière (1881-1961), 1904"

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An April Fool hoax by Proustonomics

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Yet another painting claiming to be a portrait of Proust by Giordani

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16
Seen on eBay claiming to be Marcel Proust reading c. 1900 "Certified authentic"

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Auction lot claiming to be a portrait of Proust by Raymond Woog (1875-1949)


None of these is Marcel Proust although all of them have claimed to be at one time or another.

 


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