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Nadar jeune
(Adrien Tournachon, 1825-1903)Cow of the Ayrshire Race

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Cow of the Ayrshire Race. 1856. Varnished salted paper print mounted to board. 20,2 x 28,5 cm (30,5 x 47,3 cm). Photographer's signature stamp and negative number in the negative in lower right, titled "Kuh von der Ayrshire Race" in black ink below the image on the mount, numbered "M 86" in pencil, Établissement Bovin label embossed onto top left corner of the mount.

Adrien Tournachon, the younger brother of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (better known as Nadar), briefly collaborated with his brother after opening a photographic studio. However, competitive tensions arose in 1855, leading to a court ruling that Félix, the more accomplished photographer, was “the only, the true Nadar,” preventing Adrien from using the name “Nadar jeune.” In 1856 and 1860, Adrien photographed prize-winning livestock at Paris agricultural fairs, utilizing the faster collodion wet plate process instead of the slower paper negatives previously used. At the 1856 fair, he successfully produced over 120 negatives, around 50 of which were printed and included in an album presented to the minister of agriculture and commerce. The photograph offered here is printed using the vernis-cuit technique, where the paper is coated with layers of gelatin and tannin to give it the appearance of varnished leather. – A few light surface scratches, slightly faded in areas, otherwise a rich dark print in very good condition.