Portrait of Théophile Gautier
Adrien Tournachon (known as Nadar jeune)
(French, 1825–1903)
about 1854
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, salt print from paper negative
DimensionsImage: 26 × 18.2 cm (10 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 31.5 × 23.7 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 31.5 × 23.7 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Elisa Fredrickson
Accession number2019.125
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Not on viewClassificationsPhotographs
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ProvenanceNovember 10, 2016, anonymous sale, Binoche Renaud-Giquello et Associés, lot 85, to Serge Kakou (dealer), Paris [see note]; 2019, sold by Serge Kakou to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 2019)
NOTE: According to the dealer, the photograph may have been consigned by Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris, who had acquired a large group of Nadar/Tournachon photographs in the 1960s from Michel-François Braive. Braive, in turn, had acquired his photographs from Marthe Nadar.
NOTE: According to the dealer, the photograph may have been consigned by Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris, who had acquired a large group of Nadar/Tournachon photographs in the 1960s from Michel-François Braive. Braive, in turn, had acquired his photographs from Marthe Nadar.
Adrien Tournachon (known as Nadar jeune)
1861
Adrien Tournachon (known as Nadar jeune)
1864
Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu)
