Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Victor Hugo sur le rocher des Proscrits (Victor Hugo on the Rock of the Proscribed) c.1853 Print on salted paper, 17 x 17 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Victor Hugo arranged the staging, his son did the shooting. (Orsay)
Nadar (1820-1910) Portrait de femme (Female Portrait) 1890s Photograph on paper, 33 x 19 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Nadar (1820-1910) Gioachino Antonio Rossini 1856 Salt print mounted on card, 24.4 x 18.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Rossini (1792–1868) is best known for the 39 operas he completed before his 39th birthday, including The Barber of Seville, Othello,…
Modotti, Tina (1896-1942) Orozco Mural, Preparatoria, Man Kissing Nun’s Hand 1926 Gelatin silver print, 18.3 x 24 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Orozco, José Clemente (1883-1949)
Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Sphinx-Hôtel (Untitled) 1935 Gelatin silver print on paper, 25.8 × 23.9 cm Tate Britain, London Untitled (Sphinx-Hôtel) 1935 is exemplary of Dora Maar’s surrealist-inflected street photography. The black and white photograph depicts a foreshortened view of the Sphinx-Hôtel…
Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Pearly King collecting money for the Empire Day 1935 Gelatin silver print on paper, 27.3 × 23.5 cm Tate Britain, London The charitable tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens, which continues today, originated in Victorian London. They evolved…
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Paul Cézanne dans son atelier (Paul Cézanne in his studio) 1894 Silver print, 11.3 x 9.4 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Deux modèles dans l’atelier du peintre (Two models in the painter’s studio) c.1905 Aristotype, 17.7 x 12.8 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Nadar (1820-1910) Charles Baudelaire c.1854 Gelatin silver print, 19.6 x 14.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)
Nadar (1820-1910) Théophile Gautier c.1865 Gelatin silver cabinet card print, 14.5 x 10.4 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872)