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Portrait of Ernestine Nadar, the artist's wife, wearing fur stole by Nadar

Portrait of Ernestine Nadar, the artist's wife, wearing fur stole

Nadar · 1875

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DETAILS
Artist
Nadar
Date
1875
Medium
uncut sheet of three matte gelatin silver carte-de-visites
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art
Dimensions
[object Object]
Collection
Photography
Culture
France
Credit line
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
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Nadar

Nadar, the pioneering French photographer, caricaturist, and balloonist, took the first aerial photographs in 1858 and captured iconic portraits of his bohemian Parisian circle.

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