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Nadar (Félix Tournachon) Tournachon, Adrien (French, b.1820)

Title
Nadar (Félix Tournachon)
Artist
Tournachon, Adrien (French, b.1820)
Publication
Le Musée Français: Portraits Des Contemporains : Dessinés D'après Les Meilleures Photographies
Date
1861 plate (1855 ca negative)
Process
Lithograph (from photograph)
Atelier
Edouard Blot
Image Size
15 x 19 cm
Sheet Size
21 x 32 cm

This portrait of Félix Tournachon Nadar was published as a supplement to the weekly magazine ‘Le Journal Amusant’. The supplement contains in all 92 full page portraits of famous European figures rendered in lithography and based upon photographs (some of the portrait reproductions are signed in the plate ”Gillot”).