Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Phryné devant l’aréopage (Phryné before the Areopagus) 1861 Oil on canvas, 80 x 128 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Compare: Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout 1860–1861 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and…
Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout (Standing Female Nude) 1860–1861 Salted paper print from glass negative, 20.2 x 13.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and left-wing politicians, Nadar is known to have photographed only…
Nadar (1820-1910) Autoportrait en costume (Self-Portrait in Costume) 1862–1864 Salted paper print from glass negative, 22.1 x 13.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the early 1860s, the famous portrait photographer Nadar was spotted at Parisian soirées decked out in…
Nadar (1820-1910) Pierrot riant (Pierrot Laughing) 1855 Gelatin-coated salted paper print, 27.3 x 19.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York We owe the contemporary image of Pierrot to the famous mime Jean-Gaspard Baptiste Duburau, who replaced the ruff and wide white…
Nadar (1820-1910) Théophile Gautier c.1856 Salted paper print from glass negative, 24.8 x 19.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Ringmaster, publicist, and performer in a highly theatrical life, the legendary Nadar wore many hats–those of journalist, bohemian, left-wing agitator,…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l’Art (Nadar elevating Photography to the height of Art) 1862 Lithograph on newsprint, 33.7 x 24.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York See also: • Nadar (1820-1910)
(1820–1910) Gaspard-Félix Tournachon The artist’s works: Charles Baudelaire c.1854 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Corot 1855–1859 Getty Center, Los Angeles Pierrot riant 1855 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gioachino Antonio Rossini 1856 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gioachino Rossini 1856 Private collection Honoré…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) La dernière prière des martyrs chrétiens (The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer) 1883 Oil on canvas, 87.9 x 150.1 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore William T. Walters commissioned this painting in 1863, but the artist did not deliver it until…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Diogène (Diogenes) 1860 Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 101 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Athens (Greece) | Diogenes (c.404 BC-c.323 BC)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Sarah Bernhardt c.1895 Tinted marble, 69 x 41 x 29 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)