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Nadar
(Gaspard Félix Tournachon, 1820-1910)Portraits by and of Nadar

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Portraits by and of Nadar. 1855-1863. 4 albumen prints on carte-de-visite mounts with decorative borders. Each ca. 8,5 x 5,5 cm (mounts 10,2 x 6,2 cm). Photographer’s initials embossed on the mount in the lower left corner; with the photographer’s “35 Boulevard des Capucines” studio information printed in red ink on the verso.

This group comprises four carte-de-visite portraits issued by the studio of Nadar. Two photographs show self-portraits of Nadar seated in a suspended balloon basket, a playful studio staging alluding to his fascination with aeronautics and his pioneering experiments in aerial photography. Another photograph is a studio portrait of Alexandre Dumas in a composed half-length pose, while the fourth depicts George Sand, reproduced after a daguerreotype by Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg.