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Béla Bartók

(1881–1945) Béla Viktor János Bartók Works: • Blubeard’s Castle (1918) • Concerto for orchestra (1943) • Dance suite (1923) • Music for strings, percussion and celesta (1937) • Piano Concerto No. 3 (1946) • String Quartet No.6 (1941) • Violin…

Émile Zola (1876-1884)

Nadar (1820-1910) Émile Zola 1876–1884 Woodburytype, 23.4 x 17.78 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles See also: • Zola, Émile (1840-1902)

Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort (1885)

Nadar (1820-1910) Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort (Victor Hugo on His Deathbed) 1885 Woodburytype, 18.7 × 24.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles When the poet, playwright, and novelist Victor Hugo died in 1885, Nadar went to his deathbed to make…

Jacques Offenbach (1875-1879)

Nadar (1820-1910) Jacques Offenbach negative 1875–1879; print 1890–1900 Gelatin silver print, 14.5 × 10.5 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles See also: • Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880)

Corot (1855-1859)

Nadar (1820-1910) Corot 1855–1859 Platinum print, 21.9 × 16.2 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles See also: • Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875)

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…

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…