Portrait of Honoré Daumier
Portrait of Honoré Daumier

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Portrait of Honoré Daumier,

ca. 1856–58

Nadar, French, 1820–1910
Printed by Paul Nadar, French, 1856–1939
2004-426

This photograph brings together two towering figures of the mid-nineteenth-century French popular press. Félix Nadar began his career drawing political satires for the illustrated newspapers Le Charivari and Journal pour rire, published by Charles Philipon, but became best known as a portrait photographer, famous for naturalistic images of major literary and artistic figures of his day. The subject of this portrait, Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), easily the greatest caricaturist of the century, regularly supplied lithographs to Philipon’s publications as well. In his lifetime Daumier published more than five thousand lithographs and wood engravings that wryly captured all aspects of Parisian society, politics, and culture.

Information

Title
Portrait of Honoré Daumier
Dates

ca. 1856–58

Maker
Nadar
Printed by Paul Nadar
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
22.9 x 18.5 cm. (9 x 7 5/16 in.) mount: 27 x 19.3 cm. (10 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carlton Willers
Object Number
2004-426
Signatures
Signed in ink, lower right: P. Nadar
Inscription
Inscribed in graphite, verso upper left corner: Daumier Inscribed in graphite, verso right center: Nadar / Daumier, Paris
Culture
French
Type
black-and-white photographs, photographs, gelatin silver prints
Subject
busts, men, portraits

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