Jacques COPEAU (1879-1949). Photograph with autograph dedication signed, May 1898; 16.5x11cm on card with photographer's mark. Photograph of young Jacques Copeau (at age 19) by Professor Stebbing, in profile bust. From Copeau to his classmate Jean Vignaud (1875-1962), a friend since 1889 at the Lycée Condorcet: "A Jean Vignaud son vieil ami Jacques Copeau mai 1898". Attached is a L.A.S., December 3, 1909, to the painter Albert Besnard (thanks to whom Copeau was able to find a job at the Georges Petit gallery) about Albert Besnard's brother, Robert Besnard, who is now out of danger; Copeau learned of this from Montaignac, a collaborator of Georges Petit. (1p. large in-8).