Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Franz Lehar

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Original – Austro-Hungarian operetta composer Franz Lehár.

Reason: There was, unfortunately, a period between the long exposure cameras and the faster cameras that allowed a bit less freezing in place when images were fast - but very grainy. As far as I can tell, this comes from that period. However, it's an expressive image, it's good for the period, and, frankly, there don't seem to be many photographs of him that are particularly good. This is probably the best.
Articles in which this image appears: Franz Lehár + his operas [the latter as part of a template at the start of each]
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment, I believe
Creator: Bain News Service; restoration by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:22, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Useful, and I agree that it's better than most images of him. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:47, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Platinum print (thought it was a lithograph at first, but the dark areas appear to be integrated into the paper grain). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:08, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Oh, not Lehár of all people, how did you found him? The operette King. Hafspajen (talk) 12:27, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Hafspajen: I just saw Der Graf von Luxemburg a few days ago - a joy from start to finish - and searched around to see if there was anything good for him. This was hiding on the Library of Congress. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:39, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support — May be grainy but the expression is good, and Lehár is an interesting figure historically. Sca (talk) 15:36, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Bain News Service - Franz Lehár.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:39, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]