Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Jan 2016 at 13:59:18 (UTC)

Reason

By far the best of the images I can find for Massenet. Delicate photography combined with a natural pose; everything else was either really odd photographic artefacts, or weird poses. Major composer, certainly deserves our attention. (Also, any crop desired can be done with {{ CSS image crop}}, if the carte de visite mount is not desirable for some use.)

Articles in which this image appears

Jules Massenet

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Eugène Pirou, restored by Adam Cuerden.

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^{( talk)} 13:59, 6 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Support —  Chris Woodrich ( talk) 14:27, 6 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Support - I thought it was perhaps a pixel or two wonky, but after checking properly it wasn't. My eyes must just be playing tricks on me! Miyagawa ( talk) 20:03, 7 January 2016 (UTC) reply
  • @ Miyagawa: I think the different parts aren't perfectly aligned. Adam Cuerden ^{( talk)} 23:32, 7 January 2016 (UTC) reply
    • Ah, fair enough then. Miyagawa ( talk) 13:14, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Support as per nom. It's really quite a nice photograph for the age.... Mattximus ( talk) 22:37, 7 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Support – for article use, I think this edit [1] is easier on the eyes. Bammesk ( talk) 05:48, 9 January 2016 (UTC) reply
  • I don't want to go too far and make the photograph look like a different type of photo, though. I mean, all the details are visible in both, it's just darkness of moustache. Adam Cuerden ^{( talk)} 07:41, 9 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Support per my !vote on Commons. Daniel Case ( talk) 19:37, 9 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Jules Massenet by Eugène Pirou.jpg -- Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:46, 16 January 2016 (UTC) reply