page_title: Alphonse Kann
hierarchical_section_title: Alphonse Kann
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographic portrait of Peter Pitt-Millward in Alphonse Kann's home, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
context_page_description: Alphonse Kann was a prominent French art collector of Jewish heritage. He was a childhood playmate and adult friend of the writer Marcel Proust, who incorporated several of Kann's features into the character Charles Swann.
context_section_description: Alphonse Kann (14 March 1870 – 1948) was a prominent French art collector of Jewish heritage. He was a childhood playmate and adult friend of the writer Marcel Proust, who incorporated several of Kann's features into the character Charles Swann (in Swann in Love).
caption: Photographic portrait of Peter Pitt-Millward, by Alphonse Kann, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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