Musician, Spain

Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic

A man plays his guitar for a young girl in Grenada, Spain, in this autochrome picture that appeared as part of a photo essay in the March 1929 issue of National Geographic.

An early master of autochrome photography, Jules Gervais Courtellemont was one of the first to embrace the technology when it became commercially available in 1907.

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