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Théophile Gautier Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (French, 1820-1910)

Title
Théophile Gautier
Artist
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (French, 1820-1910)
Publication
Print from collection of Michel Braive
Date
1965 plate (1855 negative)
Process
Silver gelatin
Image Size
27 x 20.6 cm

This print was made for Michel Braive in 1948 by Daniel Masclet from Nadar’s original negative.

Reproduced / Exhibited

Hellman, Karen, Sylvie Aubenas, Sarah Freeman, Anne . Mondenard, Karlyn Olvido, and Paul-Louis Roubert. Real/ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France : [exhibition, Los Angeles – Getty Center (j. Paul Getty Museum), August 30 – November 27, 2016]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016. fig.75 (salted paper print)