Tag: portrait

Alexandre Dumas (c.1862)

Nadar (1820-1910) Alexandre Dumas c.1862 Albumen silver print, 14.6 × 10.6 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles See also: • Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870)

Sarah Bernhardt (c.1864)

Nadar (1820-1910) Sarah Bernhardt c.1864 Gelatin silver print, 21.1 × 16.2 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles The extraordinary actress Sarah Bernhardt was about twenty when she posed for Nadar and had barely begun her long and phenomenally successful career. Nadar‘s photograph was…

Édouard Manet (c.1862)

Nadar (1820-1910) Édouard Manet c.1862 Photograph, 23 x 17.7 cm Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris See also: • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)

Honoré Daumier (1856-1858)

Nadar (1820-1910) Honoré Daumier 1856–1858 Salted paper print, 24.4 x 17.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This portrait of the renowned caricaturist and painter Honoré Daumier was possibly not a commissioned work, but the result of a voluntary engagement with a…

Jean-François Millet (1856-1858)

Nadar (1820-1910) Jean-François Millet 1856–1858 Salted paper print from paper negative, 26.8 × 21.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875)

Théophile Gautier (c.1856)

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,…

Diogène (1860)

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)

Sarah Bernhardt (c.1895)

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)

Portrait de femme (1851)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1851 Oil on canvas, 92.6 × 73.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago