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Nadar (1820-1910)

Aliases: Félix Tournachon; Gaspard-Félix Tournachon

Professions: Caricaturist; Photographer

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    Félix Tournachon dit NADAR (1820-1910) Dessin au fusain et à lestompe, rehaussé de gouache, signé de linitiale en bas à droite.

    Félix Tournachon dit NADAR (1820-1910) Dessin au fusain et à lestompe, rehaussé de gouache, signé de linitiale en bas à droite.

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    Honoré de BALZAC (1799-1850) Panthéon Nadar 2

    Honoré de BALZAC (1799-1850) Panthéon Nadar 2

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    Théophile GAUTIER (1811-1872) Panthéon Nadar 48

    Théophile GAUTIER (1811-1872) Panthéon Nadar 48

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    Alexandre Davy de la Pailletterie dit Alexandre DUMAS (1803-1870) Panthéon Nadar 22

    Alexandre Davy de la Pailletterie dit Alexandre DUMAS (1803-1870) Panthéon Nadar 22

Nadar Biography

(b Paris, 8 April 1820; d Paris, 21 March 1910). French photographer, printmaker, draughtsman, writer and balloonist. He was born into a family of printers and became familiar with the world of letters very early in life. He abandoned his study of medicine for journalism, working first in Lyon and then in Paris. In the 1840s Nadar moved in socialist, bohemian circles and developed strong republican convictions. Around this time he adopted the pseudonym Nadar (from ‘Tourne à dard’, a nickname he gained because of his talent for caricature). For his friend Charles Baudelaire, Nadar personified ‘the most astonishing expression of vitality’. In 1845 he published his first novel, La Robe de Déjanira , and the following year he embarked on his career as a caricaturist, working for La Silhouette and Le Charivari and subsequently for the Revue comique (1848) and Charles Philipon’s Journal pour rire (1849), which later became the Journal amusant (1856). In London in 1863 Nadar discovered the drawings in Punch and met the illustrators Paul Gavarni and Constantin Guys, who became a friend. Nadar ended his career as a caricaturist in 1865, by which time he had become famous as a photographer.

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